[2022] MultiVersus Fall Showdown - NA East #1 | Multiversus Dev Tracker

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904s	versus fall Showdown European open
907s	number two my name is Austin I'm joined
909s	here by Sharpie we got some great
911s	matches coming for you guys this
912s	tournament has been going on all weekend
914s	and right now we are jumping into top
916s	eight of the section so many good
918s	players coming up two weeks ago we had
920s	eight teams come up get the qualifier
922s	into finals now we have eight more teams
924s	to see who's going to be what seed who's
926s	going to place what tournament for this
928s	today and honestly I'm can't wait for
930s	the rest of this bracket Sharpie how are
931s	you doing how's everything I'm doing
933s	great you know I'm really excited to see
936s	so much amazing european-based talent we
939s	have so many incredible players inside
941s	of this bracket a couple of my personal
943s	favorites I want to go ahead and Shout
944s	Out actually I'm seeing that Babar and
947s	Elroy made it out on the bottom side of
951s	the bracket to compete inside of this
952s	topic incredibly excited to see them
954s	play do you have any personal favorites
956s	here going into this top eight Aussie oh
959s	man I mean if I'm gonna be real I feel
961s	like I'm a fan of every single player
963s	here right because a lot of them bring a
965s	lot of cool stuff to the table uh just
966s	as an example ponics and trab bringing
968s	Finn and Rain dog I've always been a fan
970s	of that team just because fan it has the
972s	ability to just get in there really
973s	quick and do any sort of thing he wants
975s	to do through the gym back to try to
976s	teleport to rain dogs in the background
978s	trying to play like the more support
980s	role tether them on in but if I had to
982s	pick a favorite team I think right now
984s	my eyes are on bazio and Minnie Michael
986s	purely because the team from Poland that
988s	lost literally their first set of the
990s	entire tournament yesterday round one
992s	they got knocked into losers they have
993s	climbed throughout the entirety of the
995s	lower side of the bracket to make it
997s	into top eight so far so they are going
999s	on a tear right now so if I were to see
1001s	them actually get all the way to losers
1002s	finals Grand finals like just from
1004s	losing round one that would be quite the
1006s	sight to see we'll have to wait and see
1007s	what happens though
1008s	most assuredly I know that there's been
1011s	so many new changes inside of the game
1013s	not only have we had the addition of
1015s	Black Adam uh literally but a few like
1017s	weeks ago now but we also have stripe
1020s	who is legal inside this tournament
1021s	ultimately didn't have any Stripes
1023s	actually get into top eight this time
1025s	around but we did see him throughout
1027s	pools we saw him in parts of top 32.
1029s	it's it's really exciting to see how
1031s	quickly a lot of these players are
1032s	adapting to the new character characters
1034s	that are existing inside of this game
1036s	yeah and you never know someone might
1038s	bust them out later on in this bracket
1039s	just goes like he's a very good
1041s	character to throw in as like your
1042s	secondary if remains not working out for
1044s	him right because he's just got such
1045s	strong tools such a great assassin to
1047s	get in there and just deal
1049s	so much damage to all the tools in this
1051s	kit but we're going to jump into our
1052s	first set of the day winners semis of
1054s	top eights we're going to be jumping
1055s	into ponics and trab versing off against
1058s	viren and rip so this is a Netherlands
1061s	in Sweden facing off against London UK
1064s	you can see what's going to be able to
1065s	bring up to the table here so on the
1067s	left side is going to be ponics rocking
1069s	the fin trab with the rain dog and on
1071s	the right side you're gonna be seeing
1072s	more of a virin with the cake the cat
1074s	and rip on the Arya Stark
1077s	now rain dog has done has been a very
1078s	popular pick for a lot of players going
1080s	into this fall Showdown I remember back
1083s	on the n a side of things we saw quite a
1085s	few rain dogs and what I'm really
1087s	interested to see here is exactly how
1089s	Finn is going to operate with the rain
1091s	dog what type of perks they're going to
1092s	be taking and what we're basically going
1094s	to be looking at for the mindset against
1095s	a character like an Arya who can easily
1098s	stick to you rain dog's going to really
1099s	have to be careful but I'm interested to
1101s	see exactly what match uh which map they
1103s	select and what the round start is right
1106s	because like how the maps work by the
1108s	way for game number one for those that
1109s	don't know it's not like matchmaking
1110s	when you just get a random map right
1111s	like both teams have to agree to what
1113s	map you're going to be going to so it's
1114s	like a striking system out of all the
1116s	legal stages which I believe is the
1117s	whole map list they strike each stage
1120s	one by one until there's one map left
1122s	and that's gonna be map number one and
1124s	this is what we saw two weeks ago all
1125s	throughout the European open number one
1127s	is we saw sky Arena pretty much the
1130s	entire day whether it was with the try
1131s	platforms or The Flash series this is no
1133s	shocker to me so we're gonna jump right
1134s	into the first number game an
1136s	immediately virant and print are able to
1138s	secure a significant amount of pressure
1140s	onto the blue team we're looking at
1142s	possible knockout situations already
1144s	because that rain dog is sitting up
1145s	there at 58 and is precariously not
1148s	necessarily able to recover beautiful
1150s	recovery there so far and just just
1152s	keeping that cat the Calico cat off the
1154s	scene yeah phonics doing a great job
1156s	just kind of covering for his teammate
1158s	right letting travel get back on the
1159s	stage easy peasy qualities is really
1162s	good for being able to bring your
1163s	teammate back in but also fantastic at
1165s	having a ton of passive damage while
1167s	she's touching the opponents so good
1168s	tool to just be able to have in your kid
1170s	I'm really appreciating Panic racking up
1173s	so much damage there on on uh that Jake
1176s	player and I'm noticing that that the
1179s	Aria is not letting necessarily one get
1181s	away almost getting knocked out there at
1183s	133 of me just go ahead and recover now
1185s	both parts of the resume are over 100
1187s	meaning they are in very dangerous
1189s	territory right now
1190s	oh gets caught by the high five spikes
1193s	right into it gonna dab him up my man
1195s	that's what you got to do with this
1196s	character but all of a sudden we got
1197s	Arya coming in rip getting that up
1199s	special gonna be able to get some big
1200s	combos off the vertical damage but still
1202s	everyone's sitting at so high right now
1204s	literally the smallest little swing
1206s	could be setting someone down bye bye to
1208s	the blast zone I have to wait and see
1209s	what the person's gonna be for sure I'm
1211s	really surprised that the raid on the
1213s	week is a beautiful knockout there by
1216s	The Blue Team the Jake player both still
1219s	sitting at 100 neither necessarily
1221s	having to worry about losing their
1223s	products in there but that Aria does
1224s	have full stacks on an AOE stun right
1227s	now they have to be careful not to wrap
1229s	up but it doesn't matter if Jake's gonna
1230s	go ahead and knock you out
1234s	yeah just being able to try to survive
1236s	even longer look at that even though
1237s	they get knocked down there's a finally
1238s	that up attack gets the side air on top
1240s	of that it's going to be the one and the
1242s	two coming up from Jake and honestly
1244s	that's something that I keep the cats
1245s	are really good at right this is like
1246s	solidifying the Ko's be able to get
1249s	those points racked up because she just
1250s	has such strong attack power whether
1252s	it's the up attack on the ground with
1253s	the ax or the side of the Mega Punch has
1256s	so much range on it get The Sweet Spot
1257s	on top of that now we're gonna see
1259s	panics coming in turn regular damage bit
1261s	by bit here on verb you're gonna notice
1263s	Arya one of the lightest characters in
1265s	the game is at potentially a death
1267s	sentence here they get one more solid
1270s	hit on them
1271s	I'm noticing obviously oh okay very very
1275s	very clean
1276s	nasty yep beautiful knockout security
1280s	immediately comes back over because
1282s	Rob's Jade and just quickly separates
1285s	that Jake from them who unfortunately
1288s	not necessarily able to worry about that
1289s	wasn't able to get the final up to
1292s	secure that knockout there and right now
1294s	quickly easily recovers back onto the
1296s	stage really really clean plate here but
1299s	I'm noticing it's because somewhere even
1301s	right now it's still anybody's game
1303s	yeah literally because it's two to three
1305s	like that doesn't mean too much right
1307s	because all they need to do is just get
1309s	rid of
1310s	um be able to take that point and then
1312s	be able to win the game meanwhile on the
1314s	red team they're both at high damage
1315s	they can get like one solid hit on both
1317s	of them that's also the game so this
1319s	could be anyone's time to shine 105 here
1322s	on ponics looking for this opening gonna
1324s	try to start charging up these attacks
1325s	on the ground that's gonna be one Center
1326s	on him it actually gets called out by
1328s	the side special from rips it's Arya I
1332s	can't believe that actually Chao from
1334s	that far away you know I really did like
1336s	the down air there by the Aria to go
1339s	ahead and get that very final knockout
1342s	but as we saw throughout the entirety of
1343s	the match there were several instances
1345s	where blue team was able to get an early
1347s	knockout lead unfortunately after that
1349s	point they really weren't able to secure
1351s	any Knockouts after these first really
1353s	like two or so uh red team brought it
1356s	back with these earlier Knockouts right
1358s	now I didn't actually see Arya end up
1360s	ever using these Suns unfortunately but
1362s	thank fully after this third knockout
1365s	red team was able to find their footing
1367s	and easily secure that double knockout
1370s	to secure the very first win inside of
1372s	this Winner's top eight winner side I'm
1375s	really excited to see what adaptations
1376s	we may see here but honestly I'd love to
1378s	hear your input you actually think we'll
1380s	go back over to sky Arena platforms or
1382s	do you think we'll change I noticed that
1383s	Arya tended to have a relatively easier
1386s	time truthfully recovering but so did
1389s	thin and that rain dog onto the platform
1391s	so you think we may be looking at Skyrim
1392s	and no platforms moving forward
1394s	Pro of History repeats itself I would
1396s	say 100 that we're gonna see sky Arena
1399s	in some capacity right because like I
1401s	said if you if you if people watch the
1403s	European open number one like I would
1404s	say 90 of the stages were on Skyrim just
1406s	in general I had the Steven universe
1407s	theme stuck in my head all day
1409s	afterwards but for this particular set I
1412s	could see them sticking with the
1414s	triplets even though it is such a huge
1416s	benefit for Arya I think Finn and both
1419s	rain dog also get a ton of benefits off
1421s	of it right being able to throw like the
1423s	flying projectile onto a platform and
1424s	just kind of keep that firewall there on
1426s	top of it having the ability to throw at
1428s	uh Rain Dogs Crystal star into the
1430s	crystal gem into the air from a tall
1432s	platform also gives it more air time so
1434s	they kind of benefit both teams kind of
1437s	benefit from the same type of stages so
1439s	it could be a run back to that they
1441s	could pick the flat flat stage just to
1443s	kind of like maybe it's like a personal
1445s	preference or something we'll just have
1446s	to wait and see what game number two is
1448s	going to bring for us
1449s	both these both these team s are so
1456s	engage it looks like they are gonna go
1457s	for sky Arena no platforms inside this
1459s	matchup which personally I think works
1461s	out significantly better for Jake and
1463s	Ari in this instance compared to Jake
1465s	and uh the I'm sorry compared to Finn
1469s	and the rain dog but immediately we have
1471s	a really really aggressive round start
1473s	here blue trying to rack up some damage
1475s	not necessarily winning and then being
1476s	knocked get ready
1480s	yeah yeah see that's what you call
1482s	that's what you call me good then yeah
1486s	it was actually going kind of cool is
1487s	that phonics did a good job trying to
1489s	survive that opening push right you saw
1490s	him get knocked back by grip he faded
1492s	away to avoid any sort of follow-ups but
1494s	then say he tried to go for a recovery
1496s	right afterwards trap was trying to get
1499s	in there to save his teammate but like
1500s	urine just had to the lockdown on lock
1503s	with that side there facing downwards
1505s	and now we have ourselves a pretty
1506s	strong starting Reverend Rift could be
1508s	the end of rain dog good recovery Gonna
1510s	Know straps didn't go for the upper
1511s	special to get back on the stage gets
1512s	called out by the downer another Spike
1514s	of Rooney coming from the blue time this
1515s	time around and now we're seeing how
1517s	he's gonna be able to play out right you
1518s	got uh viren now staying at 121 damage
1521s	very beautiful play there by that rain
1523s	dog wonderful Spike and we may see it
1525s	yet again on to Jake here rainbow just
1527s	trying to let Finn take active trying to
1529s	get Finn and opportunity here to connect
1530s	and isn't necessarily able says I have
1532s	to go power rain dog I'm your mummy fan
1534s	let's go I'm just really personally
1536s	enjoying some of these holiday skins
1538s	right now I thought for the record for
1540s	the record yeah it's still it's real
1543s	Halloween
1543s	get that double candy playing with these
1546s	costumes you know what I'm saying that's
1547s	exactly what Trump's trying to do trying
1548s	to collect those money much
1549s	trick-or-treating as possible build that
1551s	bag so you get that Mighty KO sitting at
1554s	126 damage trap being the stock tank
1556s	right now just trying to fight for as
1558s	long as possible while letting panics
1560s	play the game get in there be the
1562s	aggressor be able to get that KO that
1564s	he's looking for off of that up attack
1565s	into the up there very strong string
1567s	from the fins you're gonna notice that a
1569s	lot Ben's been seeing a lot of this
1571s	character recently just because of just
1572s	how fast and strong it can be especially
1575s	with the coins you gotta be able to be
1576s	on the lookout oh for sure I'm really
1578s	appreciating the fact that uh rain dog
1580s	is just allowing Finn to basically go
1583s	ahead in 1v1 which is exactly what he
1584s	wants whenever there's a situation where
1586s	Finn isn't sitting by all beautiful I
1588s	almost thought that was a knockout I
1589s	almost thought that was a knockout okay
1591s	okay okay there we go there we go very
1594s	nice knockout secured by that Aria the
1596s	Jake player is just being incredibly
1597s	airport right now at 121 any type of
1601s	Smash exactly like Batman could prove
1603s	fatal and they have to be incredibly
1604s	careful here
1606s	damage is not a joke yeah virin is
1609s	sitting at 158 so literally there are
1611s	one downer from rain dog away from
1612s	stealing this entire game but a whole
1615s	lot of seconds getting caught by the up
1616s	special they just steal it from them
1618s	they had the lead it was all in their
1621s	grips but they got they got a little bit
1622s	too greedy you saw them being Airborne
1624s	so many times they could have been
1626s	conditioning throughout the rest of the
1626s	game right because you saw the crabs
1628s	constantly jumping the entire game
1631s	because he wanted to get some you know
1632s	aerial Mobility going one to get some
1634s	huge anti-airs going on top of him but
1636s	because he committed the air so much
1638s	beer was like aha I see a moment I'm
1640s	Gonna Catch You with my up special when
1641s	you're at super low damage which we'll
1643s	probably see a replay of later on in the
1645s	day I can't wait to see it
1646s	I'm also very much so appreciating uh
1650s	viren and Rip's coordination on that
1652s	final knockout as you saw that they did
1654s	both actively move up in order to secure
1655s	that final knockout because they
1656s	understood the importance of it and at a
1658s	point where you had the Jake player who
1661s	was literally only one smash I'm sorry
1663s	one aerial away from a knockout right
1666s	there incredibly dangerous but still
1667s	followed up just to secure it right
1669s	there you can see unfortunately uh
1671s	unfortunately the Finn wasn't able to
1674s	follow up fast enough to secure and save
1677s	rain dog there but good play and good
1679s	adaptation from the red team in general
1681s	what are you expecting to see this next
1683s	game here Aussie uh same thing literally
1685s	the same stage you're gonna see some
1687s	more sky Arena but if you notice that
1689s	that very ending that last Replay by the
1690s	way Trev died at 17 damage that's what
1693s	that combo started because it got caught
1695s	by Jake's up special Jake's up special
1698s	is such a strong tool for uh dragging up
1702s	someone and being safe because whenever
1703s	Jake or cake commits to the up special
1706s	their head is their vulnerable spot so
1708s	they get hit in the head that's when
1710s	they're gonna get you know called out
1711s	but everything else about them is
1712s	invincible so they actually trap them
1714s	the second they caught trab in that trap
1717s	right both Arya and um Jake went up to
1721s	the top just to secure that kale and
1722s	there was nothing that panics could do
1724s	to help them because like if planets
1725s	would have went up there to try to chase
1726s	after him even honestly that's probably
1728s	what they did but even if they committed
1730s	to that he would have also been caught
1731s	by the also been dragged up then they
1733s	both would have exploded so it was just
1734s	kind of like a Checkmate but the second
1736s	it got caught into the up special
1738s	I've I've noticed in both instances that
1740s	blue team is having difficulties
1741s	actually securing the final knockout it
1743s	almost appears as though they get a
1745s	little bit more passive a little bit
1746s	more
1747s	um comfortable in their lead and
1749s	ultimately it's been the resulting of
1751s	their downfall here so I'm really hoping
1752s	to see a change inside this very next
1754s	match
1755s	yeah I mean they're playing very solid
1757s	both of those games I like the for sure
1759s	I thought they were going to win both
1760s	both of those but in this type of game
1761s	especially at top level like you're
1763s	never safe at any damage right if
1765s	someone can be like one good read on you
1767s	at a specific uh section especially with
1769s	this composition you can explode at any
1771s	damage like that's what makes Jake and
1773s	Arya such a strong team is that they
1775s	both have the ability to just steal
1777s	lives at any given moment
1779s	I'm really appreciating Arya racking up
1782s	this ridiculous damage right now on
1784s	brain dog that is going to be the very
1785s	first knockout for the red team onto
1788s	rain dog who's now just trying really
1789s	hard ultimately to stick towards Jake
1792s	which is a bit of a difference that
1793s	we've seen inside of some of these other
1794s	matches previously we've seen them
1796s	completely comfortable in the 1v1
1797s	situation now we're seeing red team
1799s	separate brain dog uh for their benefit
1802s	and that is going to secure a knockout
1804s	on The Blue Team
1805s	yeah trab had a great kbi there to try
1808s	to escape that combo right just trying
1810s	to fade to the left they probably have
1811s	Tasmanian uh trigonometry equipped as a
1814s	part to help them with that to escape
1815s	combos it's a very popular Park we've
1816s	been seeing a lot in meta is just
1818s	because it allows you to be able to
1819s	survive a little bit longer so now we're
1820s	going to jump right into it one point a
1822s	piece here you'll notice that uh Jake
1824s	veren's starting to get pretty high
1826s	damage 127 but Jake's a pretty heavy
1828s	character if you're the Wonder Woman
1830s	even so has a lot of weight to their
1832s	mountains still not in that danger zone
1833s	just yesterday caught by a big combo see
1835s	look at that any other character that
1836s	would have exploded but still
1837s	surrounding at 135 meanwhile Ben being
1840s	super light Rip's gonna get that up air
1841s	into the up special looking for that guy
1843s	I love this the Escape story
1851s	top and just like hit them or try to
1853s	save their teammate they get caught by
1856s	the oh special and they die at a super
1858s	low damage Sharpie so talk to me exactly
1861s	about how red team was able to secure a
1863s	win through these replay moments right
1865s	here because it truthfully as you said
1867s	previously it didn't always look like it
1869s	was in red team's favor in this match we
1871s	saw a very very large momentum shift
1874s	yeah literally it was like what I was
1876s	talking about earlier is that you're in
1877s	danger of any damage right here was the
1879s	given moment that that was Checkmate
1881s	purely because that whole section there
1883s	at the very end you'll notice that Arya
1885s	hit him with the side air got the little
1887s	trap in the top Corner Finn dies at 122
1889s	damage which is a pretty high damage so
1891s	you're gonna see that or sorry rain dog
1892s	did but then you see Pines like okay I
1894s	need to go up there and save them panics
1896s	jumped into immense danger at zero
1899s	damage and because he jumped up there at
1901s	zero he got called out by the up special
1904s	from viren got dragged all the way to
1906s	the top of the screen and then you know
1908s	lost their life at that low of damage
1910s	which is something that like a team of
1912s	Jake and Arya can do extremely well so I
1915s	feel like if foxes would have kept us
1916s	cool and didn't try to go and save for
1918s	their teammate they could have been
1919s	still in that fight grants they've been
1920s	a very uphill battle it was one point to
1922s	three it was kind of a Do or Die moment
1925s	like what do you do in that situation
1926s	it's very scary to jump up and try to
1928s	save her teammate against a when there's
1930s	a Jake on screen just having that
1932s	ability to just like be like Invincible
1934s	below below you and also have the
1935s	ability to have that unique perk which
1937s	drags you up to the top and makes you
1939s	explode is such a danger to be able to
1940s	challenge
1942s	it's really really hard especially when
1943s	you're up on those High percentages but
1945s	once again congratulations to Varian and
1946s	rip who move forward on the winner side
1948s	of the bracket unfortunately that
1949s	doesn't mean that trough and panic are
1951s	going to be on the lower side of the
1952s	bracket moving forward and they'll have
1954s	an opportunity to redeem themselves
1956s	later on we are going to move to our
1957s	very next match inside of fear which I
1960s	know may not necessarily be your
1961s	personal favorite but is another
1962s	Multiverse casters personal favorite
1965s	character going into this we have plug
1968s	tank who's teaming with Timmy
1971s	222 as well as two Senpai who's teaming
1975s	with uh maju maju of course is a Batman
1979s	player uh who I actually was kind of
1982s	kind of on the fence about naming here
1984s	uh of course everyone knows that uh
1987s	Batman's a very contentious player a
1988s	very contentious character right now but
1990s	is a very very strong character
1992s	especially with characters like Arya
1995s	talk to us about what we can expect
1996s	inside this very next match here
1999s	um sure so it's Ari and Batman facing
2001s	off against in the morning pleb tank on
2003s	the fin Timmy on the Morty this is going
2005s	to be kind of a uh aggressive match from
2009s	Finn Arian Batman all three of those
2011s	characters are going to try to get in
2012s	and go gun swinging especially to Senpai
2015s	and mad they're going to be playing
2016s	incredibly aggressive especially with
2018s	that comp just having Ari and Batman
2020s	having kind of similar aerial speeds
2021s	with the up special from Arya can easily
2024s	like teleport to your opponent allows
2026s	Batman to jump in there and get a lot of
2027s	like uppercut action on top of that so
2029s	they can follow up with each other
2030s	extremely well meanwhile with Finn and
2032s	Morty Timmy's gonna have the ability to
2034s	save Finn whenever he finds himself in
2036s	danger right having that special that
2038s	just has like the saves Point Special is
2040s	such a strong tool in Morty's kit that
2042s	can save his teammate from literally
2043s	anywhere as long as he pops it it's
2046s	going to be kind of difficult to see
2047s	what we're gonna be able to see how it's
2048s	going to be able to play out though so
2050s	we'll see you have to get a lot of
2052s	damage already on Blue Team
2054s	I'm really already not necessarily
2057s	seeing what I thought I was going to see
2058s	on MJ's side racking up 76 and that Aria
2061s	is already at 70 red team coming out
2063s	relatively unscathed and we're noticing
2066s	already Finn's benefiting from a lot of
2068s	this great health assistance from the
2070s	Morty support
2072s	yeah like again just having the ability
2074s	to just go out there get that passive
2076s	healing as well on top of that it's very
2078s	strong for them and red team's already
2079s	up to a fantastic start not really
2081s	letting blue team play the game they
2082s	want to do right you'll see MJ going off
2084s	stage immediately getting about big
2086s	cider coming up from plebden nice follow
2088s	up with the up air Timmy Morty's up air
2090s	is such a strong tool be able to just
2091s	like throw out their big Blast Zone on
2093s	top of it could easily send someone
2095s	flying you know as a plug thing's trying
2096s	to go for the down tag right there on
2097s	the edge try to get a spike on top of
2099s	them two Senpai in trouble flying off to
2102s	the top Sharpie you know it's crazy
2104s	because Arya wasn't able to touch that
2106s	Morty not once every single time that
2109s	she attempted there was a Dodge and
2110s	reaction and an immediate punish from
2112s	the thin it's almost like they know Arya
2114s	is trying to Target Morty and she's
2116s	being forced to change attention because
2118s	Finn is over there to stop her
2121s	by the way speaking of stopping they
2123s	stopped that up special right there I
2125s	mean just close to the down special took
2127s	him right out of the death's grass and
2129s	brought right back down to the stage
2130s	that's what makes Morty so strong is
2131s	he's such a great he made me classified
2133s	as a Bruiser but I swear he's a support
2135s	dude and he has the ability to just be
2136s	able to save his teammate from any sort
2138s	of combo that's in arya's worst
2139s	nightmare because Arya is all about
2140s	getting those vertical combos Batman's
2142s	all about those vertical combos man
2144s	right now he just can't get anything
2145s	they're combos off because they are
2146s	exploding left and right resting you
2148s	have to lose a single life no points on
2150s	the board for Bluetooth this would look
2152s	like a Struggle Bus finally gets the
2153s	uppercut because they close out pin as
2154s	well they have to at this moment he
2156s	managed to finally get it off of the
2157s	dagger now he was a tied game in terms
2160s	of like the accident actually that side
2162s	is Sharpie never mind he's looking
2163s	pretty blue it's it's not necessarily
2166s	looking super great for the blue team
2167s	right now you haven't already had 126
2169s	and with a fit and a Morty heaping that
2172s	Batman at Bay is really really not
2174s	looking Grim but we do have those
2175s	weekend Stacks coming out on Finn that
2177s	could provide a really good possibility
2179s	for Arya go ahead and secure a knockout
2181s	if is able to grab him looks like that
2183s	down special is not going to necessarily
2186s	that down here it's not going to
2186s	necessarily be enough to go ahead and
2187s	knock him out and Batman's in a very
2189s	prepare situation that final knockout
2191s	does move pleb tank and Timmy one oh
2195s	right now inside of this matchup talk to
2197s	me about how we got here
2199s	dude literally it was just they were
2201s	just shutting down all the regression at
2203s	the very end they're actually liked a
2205s	lot that Finn uh pleb tank jumped off
2207s	got the downer whenever you're off stage
2210s	against Finn it's one of the scariest
2211s	positions to be in you could be an
2213s	advantage state disadvantaged state it
2215s	doesn't matter if you're trying to face
2216s	off against the defend off stage you
2218s	might get caught by the downer because
2220s	you even if you're playing like the
2221s	aggressive approach and try to go off
2222s	there and chase after him there's a
2223s	chance you can copy that sword from
2225s	right above him but this is the spot
2226s	right there you caught him with the down
2227s	attack got the spike right afterwards
2229s	and that solidified the entire game for
2230s	them the thing is Arya was the primary
2233s	target right you want to change after
2234s	Arya she has 150 damage she could
2236s	literally explode to one down here I get
2238s	one easy ring out not even a combo just
2240s	like one big hit would send her flying
2242s	but if you see an opportunity which is
2244s	exactly what blip tank saw oh I got a
2246s	down attack and I put Batman in a very
2248s	bad position against Finn one of the
2250s	greatest people off stage ever I'm gonna
2253s	go down there and I'm gonna solidify
2254s	that Spike I don't even need Arya
2256s	now here's an unpopular opinion
2259s	truthfully going into this Aussie um
2262s	there was recently A Change made to
2264s	Scooby's Mansion which actually is
2267s	currently an experimental format that
2268s	allows you to play on Scooby's mansion
2270s	with no roof that stage would be so good
2274s	so good right now I believe for the
2276s	Batman and the Arya to counter pick over
2278s	to I don't know if they're gonna do it I
2280s	don't necessarily know if they are able
2282s	to do it inside of this tournament but
2283s	just something to keep in mind inside
2285s	these situations you don't always have
2287s	to go back to sky Arena and you don't
2288s	always have to put those platforms on
2290s	there are a multitude of different
2291s	opportunities that you have on other
2292s	different stages more so than just
2294s	trophy's action Sharpie I hope you like
2296s	Steven Universe's theme song because
2298s	you're going to be hearing it literally
2299s	all day I'm not kidding like this though
2301s	like it's like I know you want to see
2303s	all these stages I know people do want
2304s	to but this is where the players feel
2306s	comfortable to play on this is kind of
2307s	like European scene they like playing on
2309s	the stage because of it not being too
2311s	complicated right you have the flat Open
2313s	Stage you have to try platforms that's
2315s	all these players want and or need
2317s	that's kind of what they're kind of
2318s	feeling with right now so it's just kind
2320s	of like Europe's European scene it's
2322s	very different from like the n a
2324s	tournament that we saw like a month ago
2325s	right where we saw a lot of trophies
2327s	Edge it's all sky Arena you even saw
2329s	crimeans a couple times so like it's
2331s	it's just I think it's just a culture
2332s	thing in my opinion I understand I
2335s	understand and you know it's really
2336s	interesting to know that there's so many
2338s	different stages that we could see as
2339s	well I know later on as I'd rack we have
2341s	an Iron Giant it'll be interesting to
2342s	see what choices they go to but it's no
2343s	time necessarily to talk about some of
2346s	these changes because look at the way
2348s	that red team is able to command some of
2349s	these percentage we have both teams
2351s	sitting and cruising really really close
2352s	to 100 right now that gray Health coming
2354s	in massive handy right now ultimately
2357s	resulting in an adult
2359s	because of that Aria we're playing with
2362s	The Knockout in time right there Arya
2364s	ultimately getting knocked out both
2366s	members of the red team also getting
2367s	knocked out meaning that MJ is currently
2369s	up to Da wow okay it's even it's even
2373s	it's even don't listen don't listen
2375s	if I had a nickel for every time I saw a
2378s	Finn die because they tried to save
2380s	their teammates like I'd be rich because
2382s	like that's just what happened you saw
2384s	Timmy was in trouble from arya's up
2386s	special jumped up there to try to save
2387s	them and then got caught in it
2389s	themselves and they both exploded for it
2391s	but that's okay they're able to even
2392s	this up and not only even it up but take
2394s	the leader right now two step by trying
2395s	to find that follow-up on Timmy Tim he's
2397s	gonna be able to use his side special
2398s	that's another strength of Morty's right
2400s	being able to use the side special to be
2401s	able to just kind of take yourself out
2402s	of the battle for a little bit make your
2404s	recovery insanely strong because not
2405s	only do you gain armor you can decide
2407s	where you're gonna pop out of the door
2408s	so it keeps your opponents guessing they
2410s	can't see that that little marker that
2412s	uh you can normally see on your screen
2414s	oh for sure Marty uh Morty Sarah is
2416s	really really good just for stalling in
2418s	instances like this when you have a fin
2419s	who is actively engaging on making sure
2421s	that both of the enemy teammate uh enemy
2424s	team is off of you it's a really good
2426s	technique to use just kind of grab a
2427s	little bit more Brown and as we are
2429s	watching both of these teams play ping
2431s	pong right now I can't help but wonder
2433s	who's going to secure the very next
2435s	knockout here because if it is in fact
2437s	red team that is very possibly GG for
2441s	this specific match
2442s	I mean this is this go either way right
2444s	because both players in the red team are
2446s	at high damage only use one down or one
2448s	uppercut one follow-up that's what
2449s	they're looking for meanwhile arya's in
2451s	danger it's going to be off
2453s	team drops they're definitely trying to
2456s	get more these aims them with the same
2457s	swing that's what I'm saying is what
2459s	he's so strong to be able to see you in
2460s	a bad position but not that bad it is a
2463s	cool down move you cannot be out there
2464s	spamming it so unfortunately not gonna
2466s	be able to save him a second time the
2468s	save points such a good use of just like
2470s	I give you a second chance but you know
2472s	it's balanced by making it on a cool
2474s	down obviously going into this match uh
2476s	we saw a very early lead secured by The
2480s	Blue Team and ultimately this very next
2482s	stock out onto the Batman kind of
2484s	worried me a little bit because we kind
2485s	of saw we kind of saw red team getting a
2487s	lot of their footing back not only just
2489s	by knocking out the Aria but also by
2491s	this right here we see them kind of
2493s	making sure to keep Batman off the stage
2495s	and that was what I was mostly concerned
2497s	about because Batman was having a lot of
2499s	issues recovering the final knockout
2501s	ultimately was secured as well by Batman
2503s	here we saw batarang actually keeping
2505s	them nice and safe what a beautiful
2506s	recovery by the way as an aside we
2508s	talked about it excessively but that
2509s	battering definitely deserves MVP inside
2512s	of that previous match I really like the
2514s	way that Batman stepped up inside of
2516s	that matchup and kind of got a majority
2518s	of The Knockout situations even though
2520s	Arya was over there providing the brute
2522s	force that we usually see come through
2523s	with Arias
2525s	MJ is so good at controlling the
2528s	batarang in a way that he manipulates it
2530s	right because how the battering works is
2532s	when Batman throws it out you can
2534s	actually control it while you're moving
2536s	it so if you ever see the batarang like
2538s	moving on like these crazy like ways
2540s	right you're gonna be like what what is
2541s	going on how is he doing that Batman
2542s	just has these mind controls that you
2544s	can just be able to send his battery
2545s	whoever he wants to do it what makes it
2547s	a very strong tool is that it is a
2549s	disjointed projectile it's a projectile
2551s	so you it while it's just out there you
2553s	can just throw it out if you're in
2554s	disadvantage as an example if Batman's
2556s	off stage and you try to chase after him
2557s	he can just throw it right back at you
2559s	as a free get me off me tool it's a
2561s	great combo move if you throw it in
2562s	somewhere in the middle of a combo it
2563s	can help extend it it's a great combo
2565s	starter because it's super safe to throw
2567s	out you're not you're not like
2568s	committing to anything because you're
2570s	throwing out a projectile as long you're
2571s	throwing out an armor or anything so
2572s	you're not at risk so it's just overall
2574s	a good tool so when you see a Batman
2575s	actually show a Mastery of their craft
2577s	with that tool it's a sight to behold
2579s	that's exactly what we're seeing from
2580s	this team for sure I'm really excited I
2584s	know I know I know
2587s	I'm also willfully happy when they do
2589s	not specifically because as you stated
2591s	before Aussie I do really like this
2593s	universe music you know what I'm a fan
2595s	I'm a fan what can I say yeah yeah I
2597s	mean they also got that new remix too
2599s	they got two different songs on the
2600s	stage he's got the new song like a week
2602s	ago really hyped stuff to be able to see
2604s	in the game I like the continually
2605s	adding music so let's jump right into
2607s	game number one we got ourselves an even
2608s	Series so far one to one's in this race
2612s	to three you'll see how it's gonna be
2613s	able to start out you're gonna notice a
2615s	lot of pleb trying to just kind of play
2617s	a little bit more grounded right Finn
2619s	has the ability to charge his attacks
2620s	while he's grounded so it allows him to
2621s	be able to extend it even further a lot
2623s	to be able to get some stronger tools
2624s	and unfortunately Timmy I'm actually
2627s	kind of missed that I didn't even jump
2628s	into the blasto I didn't patch that site
2630s	I'm going to have to look at the replays
2633s	for that because I'm not quite sure if
2634s	that was battering or if it was in a
2636s	result for uh the dagger there but it
2639s	definitely some form of projectile I
2641s	believe I'll just I'll make sure to
2643s	check that inside of the replays and as
2644s	we go into this very next match we see
2646s	that blue team is actually already
2647s	hooked drink over 100 a lot of damage to
2650s	take in return for that very first
2651s	knockout and now Ariel was not
2653s	necessarily able to secure that knockout
2654s	on Morty and does get knocked out of
2656s	herself resetting basically the damage
2659s	on Blue Team here
2660s	I think uh the reason they were able to
2662s	escape arya's uh as follow-up by the way
2664s	was because of Morty's side special it's
2666s	such a great tool for being able to
2667s	recover a great tool for being able to
2669s	just get out of combo strings stuff like
2670s	that just having the shield armor on it
2672s	is so strong and ourselves again another
2674s	even game coming up but granted red team
2676s	does have a little bit more damage on
2678s	their clock Timmy sitting at 72 damage
2680s	right now gonna have to play a little
2681s	bit more passive right which Morty can
2683s	do right more he decided to be able to
2684s	shoot out projectiles from a safe
2686s	distance throughout those nades and be
2688s	able to shoot their nades for like
2689s	additional damage to try to play like
2691s	that a little bit of a support role
2692s	against plef even those play going down
2693s	there with the double Downer good
2695s	challenge from Two Step by two step I
2697s	could have lost their stock if it wasn't
2698s	for them trying to challenge with an up
2700s	air knowing exactly what dick was gonna
2701s	go down there for a second down air
2704s	those weekend stacks on thin almost
2706s	don't even seem to really be scaring him
2708s	in the slightest with ah not enough not
2712s	enough not enough on that BP
2714s	y'all speaking of DP I already managed
2717s	to follow the second time got that
2718s	uppercut on the left side of the stage
2720s	MJ on a tear right now 112 damage got to
2723s	be very careful Batman's not exactly the
2725s	heaviest character in the Arsenal right
2727s	that's like one of the downsides of blue
2728s	team is they're playing a extremely
2730s	volatile team I like to call them glass
2732s	cannons the team because they're both
2733s	super lights
2735s	I'm personally really enjoying a lot of
2738s	the Finn's follow-up here beautiful
2739s	knock up there by the Morty not
2741s	necessarily able to get anything from it
2743s	though I just I love how the blue team
2745s	is actively working just to Dodge in
2747s	between a final knockout on MJ as well
2751s	as a follow-up as well onto two Senpai
2754s	does mean that red team comes out
2755s	Victorious inside this matchup putting
2757s	them on the board as well
2759s	Timmy just coming down with both of
2762s	those up errors just let him one after
2764s	the other insane stuff
2767s	you know I'm I'm I'm a little bit I'm a
2770s	little bit concerned right now mostly um
2772s	I'm not used to seeing a Batman
2775s	specifically that MJ uses where we're
2777s	barely seeing smoke screens truthfully
2779s	uh I counted I believe I think a total
2782s	of like three smoke screens the entirety
2784s	of this to apply some of those weekend
2785s	perks I I expected to see a few more
2788s	what what are your thoughts on that
2789s	Aussie
2790s	uh so it's a commitment it doesn't feel
2792s	like a commitment but it is actually
2793s	commitment to be able to throw down that
2795s	smoke bomb right when I say commitment
2796s	by the way it's not that it's not safe
2798s	it's that you're instead of going into
2800s	the action to be able to fight off
2801s	against your opponents you're throwing
2803s	it down on the ground instead and like
2807s	when you're doing that your teammate's
2808s	in trouble or you're not in the in The
2809s	Fray trying to do something so a lot of
2811s	Batman's especially top level blackmans
2813s	will tend to only use smoke screen when
2815s	there's downtime I mean there's like
2816s	nothing really happening you're waiting
2817s	for cooldowns to come back Etc because
2819s	it's actually not that great of a tool
2821s	at a top level unless you're like on a
2823s	claustrophobic stage so say you're like
2825s	on Batcave for instance on a smaller
2827s	stage that's when smokescreen can come
2828s	in very well because there's not much
2830s	room to move around on a Big Wide Open
2832s	Stage like that the opponents aren't
2834s	going to get caught into the smoke
2835s	screen unless you have them in
2836s	disadvantage if you manage to kick both
2837s	of the opponents off stage and you're on
2839s	the right side of the stage that's a
2841s	perfect time to throw out smoke screen
2842s	because then when you're trying to
2843s	recover they're going to get caught in
2844s	the smoke so situation didn't really
2846s	arise that much so MJ was just like I'll
2848s	throw it out when I do but it's like not
2849s	his priority he wants to get Into The
2850s	Fray that's how I think he's playing the
2852s	game anyways totally understandable
2854s	especially teaming with an assassin
2856s	character like Arya you're going to have
2858s	to hold your own and having commitments
2859s	like that's the very first time we're
2860s	actually seeing trophies at Justice
2861s	inside uh thoughts on that
2863s	uh yeah they probably just want a little
2865s	bit of those platforms we did see
2867s	trophies Edge a couple of times two
2869s	weeks ago but it was a pretty rare seat
2871s	to sight to see again right there uh two
2873s	Senpai potentially at a point there but
2875s	Timmy comes out with the save point
2876s	being able to drag him at his death's
2878s	door yet again I I cannot stress enough
2881s	how much save point is such a strong
2883s	tool in Morty's kit to be able to just
2884s	be able to save your apartment when
2885s	they're in danger can't do it again
2886s	though because that moves up
2889s	very very nice knockout there by the
2892s	Aria secured immediately and I'm
2894s	noticing that even for the damage that
2896s	right now blue team's racking up it it
2897s	seems to be a really good train in there
2899s	because of that second knockout on the
2901s	spin Arya is just absolutely going to
2904s	town right now on red team this seems to
2907s	be a much different to Senpai inside the
2910s	set
2911s	yeah literally with the trophies Edge
2913s	having like the ceilings feels like it's
2915s	like more claustrophobic a little bit so
2917s	being able to have these platforms as
2919s	well to be able to chase vertically can
2920s	help out immensely on the stage like
2922s	this so I'm glad we're seeing these
2923s	counter picks come out be able to just
2925s	instead of just going for the comfort
2926s	pick actually using it as a way to try
2927s	to enhance your skill set within the
2929s	game because right now two Senpai is
2931s	playing on fire a little bit Morty says
2934s	Timmy's sitting at 111 damage let's just
2936s	wait and see how he's gonna be able to
2937s	play out
2938s	crap I'm really appreciating the
2939s	projectile game right now coming out
2941s	from morning
2942s	letting Finn get into The Fray right now
2945s	at the same point oh he almost was a
2947s	double knockout right now very
2948s	precarious situation before this one
2950s	Morty right now at 125 something comes
2952s	in clutch to go ahead and save him and
2953s	that is a knockout on Arya and a
2957s	follow-up Naka on Finn there to secure
2960s	this match 2-2 right now completely tied
2963s	up very next round wins
2966s	[Music]
2970s	spicy one thing that I'm really enjoying
2972s	about this map pick by the way was it
2975s	allowed blue team to be able to get
2976s	those put the glass Cannon to use and
2978s	get those really early ring outs like
2981s	right here there's another one right
2982s	there I saw so many vertical Ko's this
2984s	game that if you if you didn't count the
2986s	save point rescues it would have been
2987s	like so many more right so they were
2990s	just playing on fire just continuously
2992s	comboing their opponents up into the top
2995s	and I like how they both played a really
2996s	good game of just kind of separating
2998s	them as well because right there
2999s	sometimes when uh you'll notice that uh
3001s	MJ would force Timmy into a bad
3004s	situation so that he wasn't able to save
3006s	his teammate because he had to use save
3008s	point to save himself so when he
3010s	expended it Club tank was caught in a
3012s	really bad spot on the other side of the
3013s	stage and they just kind of like they
3015s	kind of just folded at that point so
3016s	finally seeing a trophies Edge come out
3018s	in their favor that was a pretty good
3020s	counter pick for them to be able to get
3021s	those vertical chaos but I can guarantee
3022s	you we're probably going to go back to a
3024s	bigger stage because of that they
3026s	probably noticed that weight we're
3027s	getting ringed out wrung out way too
3030s	soon in this map so we need a bigger
3031s	Open Stage like sky Arena sky Arena is a
3034s	gigantic stage and another one would be
3036s	like cromulons once you get rid of the
3037s	stereo sounds it's a very wide open
3039s	stage so I think that's what's gonna
3041s	benefit uh red team a little bit more in
3043s	this set
3044s	I'm interested to see if they actually
3046s	do go to chromions because chromions has
3048s	a notoriously low
3053s	who's actually relatively lower uh or
3056s	relatively higher up than Sky Arenas or
3059s	even trophy's Edge and one of the things
3060s	I wanted to note is that Arya actually
3062s	took several different moments inside of
3063s	that previous match to recover her
3065s	recoveries using that moving platform
3068s	which is something that we didn't see
3069s	because she hasn't had an opportunity to
3071s	utilize platforms inside of sky Arena at
3073s	all so I'm really interested to see if
3075s	they'll actually take them over to
3077s	another platformless stage or if they're
3079s	gonna go to sky Arena platforms really
3081s	really good counter pick here by Morgan
3082s	specifically because I think that one of
3085s	the issues was that Finn couldn't get
3087s	his recoveries back I saw that Morty
3089s	couldn't get his recoveries back either
3090s	and platforms just gives them so many
3092s	more options for when they actually do
3093s	want to return back to the stage
3094s	especially against characters like
3096s	Batman and Arya
3097s	yeah again having those tripe plots are
3100s	gonna help them with their extending
3101s	combos but it's also going to help out
3102s	Arya extremely well so at the Wayne's
3105s	gonna be able to play off and jump into
3106s	the final game here of the final winner
3108s	semi of the Day game number five let's
3110s	see how he's gonna be able to play out
3111s	because right now blue team seems to be
3113s	on fire that's supposed to screen I was
3114s	talking about by the way you notice that
3115s	he's actually throwing it out when both
3117s	of the opponents were off stage that's a
3119s	perfect time for him to be able to go
3120s	for smoke screen so I'm glad we're
3121s	seeing that come out a lot more from MJ
3123s	in those specific scenarios really
3126s	really good awareness there's almost
3128s	like like someone's listening to stream
3129s	you know you got a new commentators I'm
3132s	not a coach you're not a coach
3134s	but here we go we see a lot more combos
3137s	coming up from pleb trying to get those
3138s	vertical
3139s	strong down are gonna be able to kick it
3142s	towards the blossom the double wearing
3143s	he gets saved by the save point yet
3145s	again Timmy coming out you're saving his
3146s	teammate constantly love to see it a lot
3150s	a lot of really good opportunities being
3152s	basically crushed right now by the
3154s	morning an ever-present threat on side
3155s	of maps like this and as we look at Arya
3158s	and Batman both at over 100 both in
3160s	nasty situations right now that up air
3162s	does go ahead and secure a knockout for
3165s	the red team because of Morty's ever
3167s	presence yes
3169s	you're now seeing him at 124 looking for
3172s	these uppercuts here comes the battering
3174s	gets the follow-up with another up
3175s	special putting more into a very
3177s	precarious position right Timmy has to
3179s	survive here try to get a little bit of
3180s	stage control manage to get the chair
3182s	swing on throw that hammer Morty you
3184s	know just hit it hit hit that dude get
3186s	him out of your sights now we're gonna
3187s	jump right back in you another up
3189s	special oh no Sharpie it's it's it's
3191s	it's it's it's not looking super great
3193s	right now for blue team uh they do have
3195s	damage on their side and is still very
3197s	easy for them to turn this around but it
3198s	does require Arya to ultimately get a
3200s	dagger off and we haven't necessarily
3202s	seen one as of yet now this fin I'm
3204s	sorry this Morty is actually very very
3207s	very dangerous right now because we're
3210s	looking at him over 100 percentage but
3212s	it looks like blue team has completely
3215s	kind of like ignored him as a threat
3217s	really deciding to focus on defense
3218s	situation I don't necessarily disagree
3220s	with it either specifically because Finn
3222s	will come through and secure those final
3224s	Knockouts really really nice there to
3226s	secure that fight that knockout that
3228s	knockout uh on Morty there
3230s	and now we're seeing the potential
3232s	finale come up to a crescendo we got
3234s	three lives to three points to two blue
3236s	team in the lead right all they need to
3237s	do is get rid of this thing get rid of
3239s	pleb tank and that's going to secure him
3240s	delayed but Timmy's gonna try to help
3241s	save him right they haven't been single
3242s	one over six percent probably has the
3243s	same point ready to go in case he wants
3245s	to go for it be able to save his
3246s	teammate blue team both at high damage
3248s	can't get in the same in time that's
3249s	gonna be his two cent fight and MJ take
3251s	in the set taking the final game
3253s	adapting to its finest and moving on
3255s	into winners final sending Club tank and
3258s	Timmy down to losers you know I really
3260s	appreciated that very last match we saw
3262s	so much commanding attention come out
3264s	from two Senpai and MJ here Mel's just
3266s	kind of on display
3267s	um ultimately I thought that was going
3269s	to be a double knockout situation that
3270s	very last bit of the replay but watching
3272s	the way that Morty's kind of been able
3274s	to uh move throughout here and take
3276s	attention off of him up until the
3278s	crucial moments I think wrecking helped
3280s	to Senpai nmj recognize situations where
3282s	they could actually knock them out
3283s	especially inside of instances like this
3285s	right here where we saw Arya follow up
3287s	and then they immediately took that
3288s	opportunity to go ahead and single out
3290s	thin using the time that they had to
3294s	actually separate the both of them ended
3295s	up working out better inside the long
3296s	run which I think allowed them to use
3299s	those practice double taunt combos even
3301s	better
3302s	yeah I mean what practice is there right
3304s	you just get the mask you put the ton
3305s	out there you tired at the same time you
3307s	know I bet I guarantee you at the end of
3309s	all their matchmaking games they play
3311s	they always do the same thing I mean
3313s	it's a funny thing right Arya has the
3315s	ability to like take the face off of it
3317s	their teammate or their opponents and
3320s	they can use their Nair or their neutral
3321s	attack but the best part is their taunt
3323s	so they can match taunts always a fan of
3325s	that so again that's going to be uh two
3328s	cent by an MJ moving on into winners
3329s	finals to face off against viren and
3331s	ripogon to wait and see how that that's
3333s	gonna be able to play out but I think
3334s	it's time we take a trip down over to
3336s	losers side Sharpie this is where the
3338s	mat this is where the true struggle
3340s	begins right because Winter's side you
3341s	have that safety net you get sent down
3343s	there it's like okay I lost I'm still in
3344s	the bracket whatever but now we're down
3346s	to the nitty-gritty you're on your last
3348s	life if you get knocked out one more
3350s	time you're out of the tournament you go
3351s	home with the Seventh Place finish so
3352s	we're gonna start off with the bar and
3354s	Elroy facing off against Eric and Joe
3356s	suit gonna see how he's gonna be able to
3357s	play out
3358s	now uh candidly Aussie these this this
3362s	this set has some of my favorite players
3363s	but I would love for you to give us a
3365s	quick little history on what we can
3367s	expect to see going into this very next
3369s	set here
3370s	so uh Babar and Elroy uh Babar is a
3373s	Morty player uh gonna be playing off
3375s	which we just saw right this time
3377s	teaming with a potential Iron Giant
3379s	looks like they might be going Shaggy
3380s	but we'll have to wait and see how this
3381s	character's live stream goes out but how
3383s	it's been working is that Iron Giant
3384s	Morty is a pretty strong team that's
3386s	exactly what we're gonna see well the
3388s	reason this team is strong is because
3390s	Morty can keep Iron Giant alive iron
3393s	giant's the heaviest character in the
3394s	game so he's gonna be able to live for
3395s	as long as possible yes he becomes combo
3398s	fighter so his damn drugs up pretty high
3399s	but as long as Iron Giant is alive he's
3401s	a force to be reckoned with and anytime
3403s	he's like in any sort of danger like say
3405s	he gets caught by a really early combo
3407s	could potentially get spiked off stage
3409s	really early on Morty can just pop that
3411s	save point bring it right back to Center
3412s	Stage like you're in trouble bro I got
3414s	you it's like the rain dog pull except
3416s	it takes way less buttons to pick with
3418s	rain dog to save you have to throw the
3420s	tether on them and then push the button
3421s	a second time to bring them back to
3423s	Stage Morty can just pop that joint and
3425s	eventually just works immediately this
3427s	is a team from uh Paris France as well
3429s	as the UK face up against the UK so we
3432s	had a lot of France players two weeks
3434s	ago and this time around we got a lot
3436s	more UK so we're gonna see how Eric and
3438s	Joseph's gonna bring all this uh bring
3439s	to the table as well
3441s	you know uh going into this very first
3443s	match here I noticed that uh Babar and
3446s	El Rey were actually running the gray
3448s	Health perk of the utility perk that'll
3450s	actually allows them to basically get
3452s	additional gray Health from projectiles
3454s	and that's going to make them an
3456s	incredibly difficult team to defeat even
3458s	more so than just uh some of the
3460s	accolades that you gave previously to
3462s	this team so I'm really interested to
3463s	see exactly how thin and Taz yeah of
3465s	course if I say in the Batcave this is a
3467s	really good chance for them to actually
3468s	go ahead and get a quick start mostly
3470s	because Batcave is notorious for having
3472s	really really low ceilings having
3474s	opportunities for an amazing comeback
3476s	and opportunities for really good double
3477s	Kos even with pretty heavy teams you
3479s	only have to get them up inside that
3480s	blast zone for but a few moments to go
3482s	ahead and secure those Knockouts so
3483s	really really smart uh first pick I
3485s	believe
3486s	yeah it's kind of a gamble first pick
3488s	honestly like just with Iron Giant on
3491s	the table this oh gosh already exploding
3493s	that early on what could happen on this
3495s	stage is that you're gonna like lose
3497s	your ring outs immediately like you're
3499s	gonna you're gonna explode very early on
3500s	but especially with Iron Giant on the
3503s	table you give a claustrophobic you can
3504s	make them not be able to run away but
3505s	also he can demand to say he can
3507s	dominate the stage and control every
3509s	little bit of it so it's kind of like I
3511s	do everyone everyone's a glass can
3513s	that's what it comes down to right now
3515s	you're gonna see him trying to chase
3516s	after him off to the top as well
3518s	ooh okay okay okay been sitting here at
3521s	132 oh and that recovery it takes almost
3525s	both of them out there very very
3528s	dangerous opportunity ultimately Ben
3530s	only takes us then gets a knockout from
3532s	it so I mean it's fine
3533s	why not yeah right why not just give it
3537s	a shot it's gonna be able to fall down
3538s	from there as well on top of that Joe
3539s	suit chilling right now 107 damage
3542s	trying to stay a little bit more alive
3543s	you can ask that she's gonna try to go
3545s	for some more Downer action can't seem
3547s	to find the mark unfortunately good
3549s	follow-up yeah I know it's immediately
3552s	the bar just caught that Downer off of
3554s	the follow-up I love the team combos
3556s	when it comes out there's another one
3557s	right there get caught by the oh special
3558s	and the side special combination attack
3560s	very interesting I'm trying to see if
3563s	Taz is going to be able to connect any
3565s	of these dog Pals to secure some of
3567s	these knockouts on Morty or Iron Giant
3569s	he has an opportunity but it does have
3571s	to get close enough off the stage to do
3572s	it just comes down with the kamadazi
3574s	booty slam I see you I see you iron diet
3577s	do do it baby do it baby we falling down
3582s	out here what makes the move really
3584s	strong too is he can cancel out of it
3585s	you know like being able to come down to
3587s	the ground before you commit to that
3588s	Lounge the loud ground slam you can just
3591s	cancel out of that and they're gonna go
3592s	off to space sayonara guys you got it
3596s	see you later Space Cowboy what a first
3599s	match indeed here
3602s	yeah I'm actually kind of shocked uh Joe
3605s	suit going Taz was not on my bingo card
3607s	I was expecting Joe suit to bust out the
3609s	Morty that she's been practicing with
3611s	over in matchmaking so to see her
3613s	actually use Taz there's kind of a I
3615s	think the reason she went for this pick
3617s	is because Taz does have the ability to
3619s	bully Iron Giant when found in the
3622s	proper spot but a good Iron Giant is
3624s	really good being able to escape these
3626s	follow-ups especially when you have a
3627s	teammate like Morty coming out to be
3629s	able to get you at like precarious
3630s	positions
3631s	you know I'm somewhat interested in
3634s	seeing what the very next stage that the
3636s	team ends up counter picking here is
3639s	because Iron Giant actually has a
3641s	completely different roster of stages
3642s	that would be considered safe for uh
3645s	them you know and inside of this matchup
3647s	we've already seen that both Morty and
3650s	Iron Giant are incredibly prolific not
3652s	only characters but also prolific
3653s	players and have this energy that they
3655s	need in order to follow up on these
3657s	smaller stages so going to a stage like
3659s	promulence may actually be a good
3661s	counter pick if only if only to give
3664s	them a little bit more space to kind of
3666s	work around but Iron Giant once again is
3668s	no stranger to crimeulon so I don't know
3670s	if we'll see that counter pitch we
3671s	probably will see sky Arena no platforms
3673s	as we've seen previously inside of this
3676s	bracket but what do you expect to see
3679s	not Batcave
3681s	um I think again that that stage was a
3683s	huge gamble especially on ewick and
3685s	Juice hits part I feel like there was a
3687s	moment there where like okay if we bring
3688s	them to bat cave maybe we can bully Iron
3691s	Giant give him make him feel
3692s	claustrophobic and just keep them off
3693s	stage but if a good Iron Giant finds
3696s	their way they can be an oppressive
3697s	force on such a tiny teeny tiny stage
3699s	and we saw it come into action right I
3701s	felt like Eric and Joe suit just found
3703s	trouble getting anything started
3705s	whatsoever that entire game I think it
3707s	was because of the claustrophobicness so
3709s	they're definitely going to be picking a
3710s	bigger stage from that whether it's
3711s	trophies Edge crimeulons or probably sky
3714s	Arena I if I was counter picking for
3716s	them I would probably go with either
3717s	trophies Edge or scattering it with flat
3720s	stage with no platforms uh crimeulons
3722s	could also be a good stage especially if
3723s	you combo them into the stereo open
3724s	speaker so it's pretty much just kind of
3726s	cover pick at this point just pick
3727s	anything that's not as small as Batcave
3729s	you're not going to be seeing tree 40
3731s	either there's no way you'll be seeing a
3732s	tree for from this just because Iron
3733s	Giant tree for it is it's a funny stage
3736s	right because on Shreveport you can like
3738s	hit Iron Giant through the plan
3739s	platforms above you because he's so tall
3741s	that he goes above the platform but it's
3743s	so claustrophobic that you can't escape
3744s	from him and whenever you have a big
3746s	stage against iron Giants and he pops
3749s	those bolts by the way you have the
3750s	ability to run away on a bigger stage
3752s	because what you do is when you see
3754s	those bolts like what they what the how
3756s	that works is when Iron Giant puts metal
3758s	on the ground these bolts right him
3760s	remember to see me can pick that up and
3761s	that adds another bolt to his repertoire
3763s	for when the cooldown comes up when he
3764s	pops that cooldown however many bolts he
3766s	has is how much invincibility he has so
3768s	if he picks up five bolts he has five
3770s	hits of invincibility he can go through
3772s	attacks before it wears off but another
3774s	thing on top of that is it's on a cool
3775s	it's on a timer so after a couple
3777s	seconds you know about 15 seconds or so
3779s	I'm not sure what the exact time is it
3781s	eventually runs out so if you're on a
3783s	big stage instead of engaging with
3785s	Invincible Iron Giant you just run away
3787s	from them and wait for it to cut wear
3789s	off and then go back into that on
3790s	Batcave you can't do that there's
3791s	nowhere to run
3793s	in addition when they take perks uh
3795s	similar to uh I'm sorry retaliation
3798s	ready like that and they stack it so
3799s	that they get a total of basically like
3801s	I believe uh after after one of the very
3803s	first patches it was moved from eight
3806s	gray Health to four seconds to about
3807s	four HP for for two seconds and at stack
3810s	it's 2 Hp for three seconds uh you're
3813s	looking at you're looking at a really
3814s	really tanky Iron Giant so we are going
3816s	to sky Arena no platforms here
3817s	immediately have the snake opener uh we
3820s	do see just a bunch of projectiles
3822s	coming up stacking up both Morty and
3824s	iron giant's armor now what you have to
3826s	worry about inside situations like this
3828s	is you have to worry about using
3829s	multi-hitting moves with the fin and the
3832s	Morty to go ahead and secure some of
3834s	this great help knocking that out early
3836s	but it also requires them not to get hit
3838s	by any of these projectiles allowing
3840s	them to stack up and that's a dangerous
3841s	game to play on a game with no flat plan
3843s	a stage with no one yeah having so many
3846s	projectiles in Your Arsenal is always
3848s	going to be a good tool especially on a
3849s	big stage like this and now that Joe
3850s	suit's rocking the Morty as well the
3852s	true main coming here we're seeing a
3854s	quite a different game right look how
3855s	much room they have to pull down right
3857s	on the left side of the stage already
3859s	getting a very early ring out on iron
3861s	Giants gonna put Elroy in a pretty bad
3863s	position right getting an early KO on
3865s	Iron Giant can be almost a dead sense
3867s	for your team because the point of Iron
3869s	Giant is to survive as long as possible
3870s	for sure uh not getting that up air
3874s	special there by uh to secure that
3877s	knockout on Morty was huge because now
3879s	red team's looking at somewhat of the
3881s	momentum not necessarily being on their
3882s	sound as much as it was inside of that
3884s	cave Arena I'm already seeing so much
3887s	more potential for The Blue Team to come
3890s	out on top specifically just because of
3892s	the stage change
3893s	yeah most definitely just having the
3895s	ability to be able to have that
3896s	customization is always an invaluable
3897s	tool and now we're seeing right now this
3900s	is going to be kind of a bad spot for
3902s	babar's Morty going out there going for
3904s	some cider action trying to just set up
3906s	shop this is the time for red team to
3907s	get up as much shot as possible you see
3909s	how long blue team was off stage for
3911s	while they were trying to buy their time
3912s	install to get back on stage red team
3914s	build up so many resources in the
3915s	process whether it was grenades coming
3917s	out from a bar or bolts for Elroy just
3919s	kind of setting up shop for as long as
3920s	possible I believe that Elroy might be
3923s	close if not at maximum volts too so
3925s	when they'll be able to go for it here's
3926s	another KO on top of that you're seeing
3928s	Morty's shout in the distance no as they
3930s	explode
3931s	I'm really concerned right now for the
3934s	blue team they have to secure a knockout
3936s	in order to stay relevant inside of this
3937s	they can't let these percentages get up
3939s	too high because that's exactly what
3940s	Iron Giant wants Iron Giant wants them
3942s	to be flying Every Which Way on every
3944s	single attack right now and if there's
3946s	one thing that Morty can do it's create
3948s	even more situations where both these
3950s	are separated we're looking at the red
3951s	team Morty kind of go ahead and just use
3953s	these grenades to get even more armor
3955s	and keep oh as I live and breathe that
3958s	was a snake not necessarily in a plane
3960s	but in the air that secured that
3961s	knockout for The Blue Team currently
3963s	putting the stock count up to a piece on
3966s	each side
3967s	definitely don't need an airline because
3969s	you already have the ability to fly
3970s	sending your opponents all the way down
3972s	to the blast zone you're seeing El Rayo
3974s	167 the scoreboard was saying it was one
3976s	to two dude that didn't really mean much
3977s	when both opponents were at high damage
3978s	anything Elroy 170 damage has bolts
3981s	about to wear off and now this point has
3983s	to go out there and save gets another
3984s	snake action off top of the spaceship
3986s	trying to send them flying away from it
3988s	has such high knockback on that gun
3990s	whenever it's on cooldown but now blue
3991s	team's in a really bad spot they're both
3993s	at high damage if one big hit goes on
3995s	both of them that's going to be the end
3996s	of the game meanwhile babar's entire job
3999s	is to stay alive for as long as possible
4000s	so you have five damage one slam job you
4005s	know he's looking for swimming look at
4006s	he's got his swim gear on he's got his
4008s	sandals you know he's ready for sand you
4010s	know that was such an oppressive uh
4012s	oppressive showing in like that final
4013s	part of the match between
4015s	two caught right here beautifully
4016s	secured by The Blue Team and cemented
4018s	them what felt like a very early press
4020s	release ultimately what we saw was a lot
4023s	more opportunities kind of changing into
4025s	red team's favor uh because blue team
4028s	was having an issue actually securing
4029s	some of these Knockouts right now that
4031s	final double KO on to The Blue Team
4034s	really helped them out uh basically we
4037s	looked at the situation where Finn
4039s	basically uses all of their recoveries
4041s	goes ahead and climbs onto the side and
4043s	Iron Giant takes that opportunity he
4044s	says I'ma sit imma take a load off and
4047s	goes ahead and knocks them off that's a
4048s	really big hitbox you have to be
4050s	incredibly careful when you are
4051s	recovering both teams opting to recover
4053s	inside of that manner specifically Finn
4055s	because he had no more recovery and the
4057s	Morty to go ahead and try to assist with
4059s	the fence recovery were easily read by
4061s	that Iron Giant who has these large
4063s	hitboxes and large heart boxes though
4066s	you may not have necessarily noticed at
4067s	that last match it's a fantastic uh it's
4070s	a fantastic opportunity for iron diet to
4072s	exploit a recovery like that and I think
4074s	that's what we may see a lot of going
4076s	into this very next match now that we
4078s	have Iron Giant and Morty up 2-0 a piece
4082s	listen all I'm saying is if someone's
4084s	gonna shut out cannonball at the top of
4086s	their lungs you better skedaddle you
4088s	don't want to be caught by that dude the
4090s	second that was on the edge it's one of
4091s	those iron giant's strongest tools dude
4093s	being able to just slam down and get
4095s	insanely early chaos and on top of that
4098s	having the ability to cancel out of it
4099s	like you got to be prepared for when
4101s	that's gonna happen right you saw Eric
4103s	actually kind of like recover a little
4104s	bit try to like oh maybe I could save my
4106s	teammate nope gets caught I feel like
4108s	that's the name of this tournament so
4109s	far Sharpie is we see Finns trying to
4111s	save their teammate and then yeah
4113s	getting rung out for it so what does
4115s	that say about Finn
4118s	um you know I'm I'm gonna decline saying
4120s	that because I think Finn is actually a
4122s	very very good character I think inside
4124s	of a lot of these matchups what we're
4125s	watching are people who are actually
4127s	very comfortable playing against fed
4129s	Finn is naturally an assassin and as you
4131s	know inside of this game uh monikers
4133s	like that really just kind of talk to
4134s	you more about their kit as opposed to
4136s	like how they basically perform but Finn
4138s	is one of those characters who after he
4140s	gets hit he is not able to easily
4142s	recover on his own he has a lot of
4145s	offensive tools not as many defensive
4146s	tools so he's really relying on Morty to
4149s	come through with some of these down
4151s	specials with some of these
4152s	opportunities to come through with that
4153s	uh the the hammer Morty you know with a
4156s	lot of these snakes and grenades to get
4157s	uh Finn out of these situations but
4159s	inside of even just that last knockout
4161s	you see what happens when Iron Giant
4163s	knows that a Morty is coming to your
4165s	rescue uh it looks as though we may
4167s	actually be looking at a fin and Shaggy
4169s	change inside of this instance in a
4171s	double Morty team though I think that's
4173s	incorrect oh what are your thoughts on
4175s	this possible matchup go going into this
4178s	very possible final match here Aussie
4180s	well this is definitely not gonna happen
4182s	because all those teams are banned in
4184s	tournaments uh so I think what's
4186s	happening they're just on the character
4188s	select screen because what happens right
4189s	here is the Players might just be
4190s	discussing perks they might be
4192s	discussing stage bands and stuff and
4194s	they're just kind of like leaving their
4195s	character select wherever it is because
4196s	on the character's left screen it
4198s	doesn't always default back to the last
4199s	character you picked sometimes it just
4200s	goes on a random character and you know
4202s	for me it always goes to Harley I don't
4204s	even play Harley but whatever whenever I
4206s	finish a game it always defaults to
4207s	Harley I don't know why it just happened
4209s	so I that's probably channeling your
4211s	inner bugs yeah you know what I'm saying
4214s	but
4216s	um yeah I I don't expect too many
4217s	changes right I believe the Morty was
4219s	working out way better for Joe suit over
4221s	Taz like again I think they're trying to
4222s	do a gamble pick there at the beginning
4224s	going to bat cave as well as picking
4225s	tabs is definitely just like a what if I
4227s	just trap Iron Giant with Taz that's
4229s	probably what was going through her
4230s	brain when they went to that first game
4232s	one and honestly it could have worked
4234s	out but unfortunately it didn't so okay
4235s	let's go to bigger stages instead and
4237s	then went to the true main which was
4238s	morning I feel like we got a lot more
4240s	work out of Joseph's Morty I agree I
4243s	agree um I would like to talk very
4244s	briefly about what we saw from Iron
4246s	Giant there because one of the things
4248s	that I'm used to seeing with Iron Giant
4250s	is a lot of players respect rage mode I
4252s	didn't necessarily see that inside that
4254s	very last match the one time that I did
4255s	see Iron Giant go into rage mode uh Iron
4257s	Giant was actually flying up at the top
4259s	left of the screen and they said oh no
4260s	no no no no here's some snakes best get
4263s	out of my Skies you know I'm I'm seeing
4265s	a a lack a lack of fear for Iron Giant
4268s	and try to take opportunities to
4270s	actually go ahead and get him whenever
4272s	they determine that the Iron Giant is
4273s	prone which is not necessarily
4275s	necessarily something that I disagree
4276s	with do you think that's going to be
4277s	Paramount and making sure that blue team
4279s	is ultimately able to make their way
4280s	back into a victory inside of the set
4283s	I think at a top level iron giant's rage
4287s	is not as good as you think mostly
4291s	because it you are at a you lose a lot
4294s	of your physical tools as an example
4296s	iron giant's jab is such a strong get
4298s	off me tool because it's such a big open
4300s	it's fast it's non-committal he loses
4302s	that move the second commits the rage so
4304s	when you see Iron Giant going to rage
4306s	mode a lot of top players are gonna zero
4308s	in on that like okay we need to keep him
4309s	occupied this entire time so he can't
4311s	get anything set up a scary image what
4313s	I'm afraid of and I'm sure what top
4314s	players are afraid of is when Iron Giant
4316s	goes into rage they would they don't
4318s	want to give him room if the second he
4320s	has room to play with he's shooting out
4322s	the Cannons he's shooting out the green
4323s	orb of death he's shooting on
4325s	electricity like there's so much tools
4327s	that come out of him that if you do if
4329s	you let him breathe and you give him a
4330s	lot of room so when he when you zoom in
4333s	on him and you start to rush him down
4335s	that's when he can struggle in that mode
4336s	so actually going into rage mode can be
4338s	kind of a burden depending on what's
4340s	going on in the game and we're seeing a
4341s	counterpick here by the way Joe suit
4343s	going straight back to the Taz might be
4345s	going for a smaller stage it's like a
4346s	gamble pick again with the weight and
4348s	see what that stage is going to be
4350s	I'm a little bit interested here and I
4352s	want to triple check to make sure I saw
4354s	this correctly I thought I saw the perk
4355s	coming out on red team that was school
4357s	me once and yeah that that's what it
4361s	appears to be that that up that that
4363s	perk actually gives the red team the
4364s	ability whenever they get hit by a
4366s	projectile block buff uh whenever they
4368s	get hit by a projectile they actually
4369s	get uh projectile block up for about two
4371s	seconds which is interesting to me
4372s	because I actually didn't see that many
4373s	projectiles coming out on the blue team
4376s	side last game with the exception of
4378s	Morty but it looks with the with the
4380s	change in the pick here that that perk
4382s	isn't necessarily needed here all right
4384s	I got I gotta cause you're offshore
4385s	because right now Taz is playing out of
4387s	his mind Joe shoot already turned Isle
4389s	Roy into a chicken and got us very early
4391s	on KO sitting off to the bottom of the
4394s	blasto budget by the way first time
4396s	we're ever seeing trophies Edge 2 in a
4398s	European open this thing is never picked
4400s	by anyone it gets caught up with the
4401s	snakes on top of it you'll be able to
4403s	even up the game this is kind of
4404s	unparamount right because Joseph's going
4406s	for the task counter pick in this
4407s	scenario because of the stage right
4409s	they're going for that game think again
4411s	they want to try to get that Rush down
4412s	on our Giant and right now it's starting
4413s	to pay dividends this could work out
4415s	extremely well for them in the long game
4417s	those Morty series aren't doing as much
4419s	work as I'd like to see really good up
4421s	air by that Morty to go ahead and get a
4423s	nice easy recovery but it is it enough
4426s	is it enough right now red team actively
4428s	occupies One controller we do have them
4430s	inside of Rage mode trying to keep that
4432s	ground Finn immediately coming attacking
4434s	both of them grabbing both of them and
4436s	get a little bit of damage on both Iron
4437s	Giant and Morty right now come Taz comes
4440s	through blast that Morty into the blast
4442s	zone easily recovers back onto the stage
4445s	and from here we're just playing ketchup
4446s	yet again both teams have really high
4448s	percentages both teams at one stock a
4450s	piece right now it's really anybody's
4453s	next knockout
4454s	yeah literally everyone has super high
4456s	damage you're getting those tabs going
4457s	in there with the Spin Attack gets
4460s	called out by the second swing on top
4461s	going down there to see the team he gets
4463s	called out in the process by the snakes
4464s	couldn't solidify that kill gets the
4466s	same point as well be able to save the
4468s	teammate and now all of a sudden things
4469s	are turning on their head deploying the
4472s	carpet right underneath the blue team in
4474s	a trouble spot right now because they're
4476s	just trying to find this last KO against
4478s	Elroy to bring this to it even scoring
4479s	that's exactly what they're gonna do now
4480s	they have uh Morty here in a bad spot
4482s	but we're gonna back up trying to set up
4484s	shop throw grenades get those spikes get
4486s	the everything you can go for you as you
4488s	pick up all bolts and metal and
4489s	everything you can for both you and your
4491s	teammate and they're going down until
4492s	one life left for both teams and Red
4495s	Team pull this off and finish it offers
4496s	Bluetooth gonna be able to put one last
4498s	point on the board let's see what's
4499s	gonna happen
4500s	okay really really just trying to get
4502s	that projectile very healthy really nice
4505s	secure there by the bar and oh we're
4509s	gonna go ahead and get that final
4510s	knockout going up saying see you later
4513s	see ya losers moving forward inside of
4516s	this on the losers round two very very
4520s	clean display by both Babar and Elroy
4522s	there but it wasn't always that way
4524s	inside of this previous match I actually
4526s	almost thought that blue team was going
4528s	to come out on top truthfully like
4529s	looking at some of these knockout
4530s	situations right here looking at some of
4532s	this early Taz play uh we saw a lot of
4535s	uh knockout confirms early inside of the
4537s	match and it just seemed like momentum
4539s	very quickly changed right about here
4541s	truthfully uh I enjoy it kind of came
4544s	into his own Iron Giant truthfully came
4545s	into his own inside of some of these
4547s	situations and I was very surprised to
4549s	see that final knockout situation
4550s	especially since Iron Giant wasn't
4551s	actually uh I want to say body blocking
4554s	a lot of the percentage from getting
4555s	help up on that Morty I almost thought
4557s	that Morty was going to get uh knocked
4560s	out very very early by Finn just because
4562s	Iron Giant wasn't body blocking but what
4564s	are your thoughts here Aussie I think
4566s	babara was 100 the MVP that Morty was
4570s	playing out of their mind there was
4571s	actually a situation there I think two
4573s	or three times when Elroy was going to
4575s	lose her life and not only did he cover
4577s	and get a reverse KO with the snake gun
4580s	he also used this hay point to bring
4581s	Iron Giant out of that Spike now I think
4583s	that was the huge turning point in that
4585s	entire game because the whole time all
4587s	the momentum was in blue team's favor
4588s	you saw Finn jump out there go for that
4591s	Downer solidifies it on Elroy so elroy's
4593s	gonna go bye-bye but when Finn commits
4595s	that he got caught by the snakes which
4597s	ended up losing his life it got gets
4599s	ring out himself and on top of that I
4600s	could say Point brings him back to
4601s	center stage and that was the turning
4603s	point in my opinion especially when Iron
4605s	Giant went up there got the up air and
4607s	what's also really interesting is I
4609s	think we're gonna see a lot more in the
4610s	future of this game as The Meta starts
4611s	to develop a little bit more is we're
4613s	gonna see a lot more counterpicks
4614s	because that was the first team that
4615s	I've seen not only counterfeit
4616s	characters but also counterpick stages
4618s	and I love seeing stuff like that I like
4619s	people actually utilizing the the
4622s	counterpick system right because you get
4624s	banned you get you get the sage picks
4626s	you can swap your characters right
4627s	picking Taz on a small claustrophobic
4630s	stage against Iron Giant was a good pick
4632s	and we saw that happen at the beginning
4634s	of the game you saw Elroy lose their
4636s	life at 20 seconds in turning into a
4639s	chicken immediately like that that was
4642s	such a smart and good Gamble from Elroy
4644s	and josu or sorry elwick in Joe suit
4646s	unfortunately it didn't pay off and they
4648s	did still take a zero three and go down
4649s	with the Seventh Place finish but hey at
4651s	the end of the day you got top eight
4652s	you're qualifying for the finals
4654s	happening in a couple weeks for sure and
4656s	you know going into this very next match
4658s	uh we we have yet another very very very
4663s	uh strong team uh I believe we have and
4666s	I'm gonna butcher the name so I'm
4667s	actually gonna allow you to introduce
4668s	the very next team here austie oh sure
4670s	it's a bazio and Minnie Michael facing
4672s	off against Phantom and mitsukun shin
4674s	this is gonna be quite the set right
4676s	because uh with the first team rocking
4678s	from Poland got both players going all
4679s	the way from Poland this team literally
4682s	lost their first round in the entire
4685s	tournament they like you so when that
4688s	happens you lose your first set how are
4690s	you feeling mentally Sharpie say you
4691s	enter a tournament you go to tournament
4692s	you lose your round one how are you
4694s	feeling for the rest of your bracket
4695s	yeah you're not a good state right never
4697s	it's incredibly hard to overcome that
4700s	that very first loss and make sure that
4702s	you're able to stay as quick and uh
4704s	fluid for any other adaptations
4706s	especially with new teams that you've
4708s	never had an opportunity to play against
4709s	you only have so many opportunities to
4711s	actually learn about their habits uh be
4714s	able to see and punish any of those
4716s	habits or even condition them throughout
4718s	the entirety of the set so seeing them
4719s	inside of top eight right now is truly a
4721s	testament to their ability to adapt to
4723s	change and one of my favorite things
4725s	about watching players like this isn't
4727s	even necessarily watching like every
4729s	single uh action and reaction but rather
4732s	the adaptations over a certain period of
4733s	time which most fighting game players
4735s	will know is called the art of yomi the
4737s	art of conditioning or playing against
4739s	uh your opponent's reactions and that's
4741s	probably something that I'm really
4742s	actually looking forward to as well now
4744s	that you've mentioned that it appears
4746s	that they have really really good yomi
4748s	and that they're really able to
4749s	understand exactly what they need to do
4750s	to come out on for it here we saw that
4752s	um one of their players actually happens
4754s	to use Superman who has been a very
4756s	popular pick inside of this game for a
4757s	very long time since the Inception of
4759s	the game excited to see a very possible
4761s	strong Superman going into this very
4763s	next match
4764s	yep having a Superman in Your Arsenal is
4766s	always going to be a strong tool
4767s	especially when the ability to be able
4768s	to just steal ring outside absurdly low
4771s	damages right but I dude they got to be
4774s	playing on fire right uh bazio and
4777s	Minnie Michael literally climbing all
4778s	the way from losers to top eights can
4780s	they climb even further when you have
4782s	that fire in you you know when you're
4783s	just like okay we're in losers we're
4785s	gonna keep going that's exactly what
4786s	they do I would be scared if I was in
4789s	Phantoms and Mexicans uh shoes right
4791s	just being able to like oh gosh these
4793s	guys have climbed so far when are they
4794s	going to end but uh Phantom rocking with
4796s	the Superman uh mitsukin with the Arya
4798s	Stark which is honestly this is a great
4800s	team right because when you go into
4802s	Multiverse twos you gotta think about
4803s	your team composition you just can't put
4805s	two good players two good characters
4806s	together you gotta think about like can
4808s	their playstyles work together can the
4810s	characters play Styles work together
4811s	having Synergy is such a strong thing
4813s	and I think just around the gate having
4815s	good character Synergy in this regard is
4816s	so strong having Superman have the
4818s	ability so but first off out the gate
4820s	both characters can get really early
4822s	chaos Arya so strong getting vertical
4825s	Kos off of the top getting sideways Kos
4827s	off of the off of horizontally as well
4829s	on top of that but she's a glass Cannon
4831s	she can lose a ring out at a very low
4833s	damage that's why you bring Superman
4834s	comes into play right Superman's a
4836s	really hard tanky character to be able
4838s	to send out there the only character
4838s	heavier than is Iron Giant to an absurd
4841s	degree so besides the Colossal character
4843s	Iron Giant he is the heaviest character
4845s	in the game so it's really hard to send
4847s	him off to the top send them off to the
4849s	sides even get a spike on him because if
4850s	you try to go for a spike off stage he
4852s	has the ability to use his up special go
4854s	up there grab you and sends you down to
4855s	the blast zone instead no matter what
4857s	your damage is so he's a force to be
4859s	reckoned with and this having these two
4860s	characters together have especially a
4862s	phantom likes playing the stock tank
4864s	that could really work out for mitsukin
4866s	to be able to play as aggressive as they
4867s	want right so as an example let's say
4869s	mitzkin gets in there loses two lives
4871s	immediately right but Phantom's chilling
4873s	okay cool they're they're in a pretty
4874s	good spot and that I think that's like
4876s	something that's really good to think
4877s	about but that puts a lot of pressure on
4879s	Phantom to be able to live as long as
4881s	possible and there also is the
4882s	possibility of playing other characters
4883s	right Iron Giant that's another tank
4885s	that can also work in this comp it just
4887s	kind of depends on what we're going to
4888s	be able to see here today
4890s	I'm I'm somewhat concerned truthfully uh
4894s	mostly because I don't know what stage
4897s	they will go to First sky Arena
4899s	platforms it has been an obvious
4901s	favorite for everyone inside of this
4904s	bracket thus far but I don't know if we
4907s	may look at somewhat of a less common
4910s	pick just because of the characters that
4911s	we see here sky Arena benefits both
4914s	these teams but truthfully there's so
4916s	many other stages that benefit the both
4918s	of them as well bat caves to name one we
4920s	have uh trophy's Edge to name another I
4923s	actually think both these teams would do
4924s	incredibly well at trophies Edge
4927s	um the not the not the non-centered one
4930s	that we just went to obviously but uh I
4933s	I do think that we may actually not
4935s	necessarily be looking at sky Arena
4936s	platforms for the very first match here
4938s	uh it's it's possible it's I'm not going
4940s	to say it's not but I am going to say I
4942s	wouldn't be surprised if I didn't hear
4944s	Steven Universe's music yet again
4946s	yep I mean I wasn't shocked it's not the
4949s	triplass is going to be the flat stage
4950s	Sharpie we're right back into the thick
4952s	of things especially for a game one like
4954s	this is gonna be a very common sage pick
4956s	for all the sets we're gonna see moving
4957s	forward right I feel like the only team
4959s	that was oh my gosh that was a really
4961s	bad spot to start off the game right
4963s	Phantom already almost losing a ring out
4965s	at 94 damage very scary stuff so by the
4968s	way blue team I'm gonna be rocked by
4969s	Phantom and mitsukin meanwhile you're
4972s	gonna have uh bazio and Minnie Michael
4974s	on the red team we're gonna have to see
4976s	what's gonna be able to happen here mini
4977s	Michael on the iron Giants uh bazio on
4980s	the re already being sent off pretty
4981s	high gets caught up at Superman that was
4983s	a really bad spot to be in they were out
4984s	of resources to not get back that's all
4986s	20 damage ring out that is a very bad
4989s	start to your game very nice down air
4992s	there by the superman to go ahead and
4993s	secure that knockout onto the Arya and I
4995s	one of the things I'm noticing is that
4996s	Superman's being very very careful about
4998s	his recovery pass right now I've noticed
5000s	that uh the first couple of recoveries
5002s	after he was immediately punished by The
5003s	Iron Giant and Arya he's taken a lot
5005s	more opportunity we immediately get
5006s	those recovery back as soon as he uses
5008s	them not opting to use any of his
5009s	emergency special recovery which is I
5012s	think really important to know for a
5013s	character as floaty as super Pale King
5015s	smiles yeah being able to just kind of
5017s	bully him in the air like that you can
5019s	see another KO by the way Arya coming in
5021s	with the up air on iron Giants or sorry
5023s	on the other Aria both tanks playing
5025s	their roles they're kind of doing the
5026s	same kind of battle plan here I have a
5028s	tank and Arya it's just uh who can get
5030s	that first oh okay oh that's gonna be
5031s	Phantom taking it with a side air there
5033s	you can see fans about 189 damage now
5035s	this is even absurd even for Superman
5037s	this is like some Iron Giant levels of
5039s	damage now that we are reaching and what
5041s	doesn't kill him makes him stronger as I
5043s	say that 207 and finally gonna find the
5044s	Kryptonite with that punch bring this to
5046s	an even game that weekend was Paramount
5049s	to making sure that they were able to go
5050s	ahead and knock out that Superman there
5051s	really good attention by uh the oh no
5055s	Arya there oh no yeah that's that's
5057s	that's that's the third knockout that
5059s	Superman has secured for this team right
5060s	now if there was ever a time to give an
5062s	award of MVP preemptively I would have
5064s	to give it to Superman
5067s	yeah Phantom is playing out of his mind
5069s	you know he got called out by that
5070s	Cannonball that's gonna be Mexican going
5072s	down they're at pretty high damage
5074s	that's okay because they have the lead
5075s	still here in terms of raw damage
5077s	chasing up with the knife gets the up
5079s	air off the top and they are living to
5081s	fight another day here we go
5084s	Superman and Arya coming out with a
5087s	Vengeance you know and looking at some
5088s	of these early knockout situations you
5090s	can see exactly what I was talking about
5091s	look look at the way that he secures it
5093s	he doesn't get that uh that that side
5095s	special but he does go ahead and get
5097s	that down Aaron yet again we see another
5100s	knockout come out in this exact instance
5102s	right here you at first think that the
5104s	Superman is going to be prone no another
5106s	down air to go ahead and secure that
5108s	knockout off the stage Superman was
5110s	playing absolutely par on form that's
5113s	not to take away from any of these
5114s	Knockouts that red team got here but
5116s	when you look at how Superman was able
5117s	to secure some of these Knockouts you
5119s	can't help but be astounded by it now
5121s	this knockout right now by the uh red
5124s	team was really really good by Iron
5126s	Giant I really like the way the Iron
5127s	Giant matched the energy here and I also
5129s	want to give the shout out to this Arya
5131s	who followed up because of that dagger
5133s	on that final knockout I just have to
5135s	say I know a lot of people may not
5137s	necessarily be a fan of watching some of
5140s	arya's diver combos I personally always
5142s	enjoy watching them because it's such a
5144s	rewarding thing to see when Arya throws
5146s	that dagger she is able to get that
5147s	final part of the confirm and that is a
5149s	final knockout um I'm just really really
5151s	proud of the blue team inside the
5153s	situation but Aussie I'd love to hear
5154s	your thoughts on what the red team can
5156s	do to possibly get another opportunity
5158s	to win here they got to put themselves
5160s	in positions where they're not going to
5161s	be off stage against Phantom Superman I
5164s	feel like Phantom was going off stage so
5166s	many times and getting such early Kos 20
5169s	on Arya 70 on Iron Giant those are
5171s	absurdly low numbers to be getting Kos
5174s	on and I feel like if those early Kos
5175s	didn't happen I feel like red team would
5177s	have won pretty easily based on what
5178s	else was going on in the match but
5180s	Phantoms are just kind of matching them
5182s	for neck to neck whenever they find
5184s	themselves off stage so just try to be a
5185s	little bit more grounded more trying to
5187s	get called off stage when you do try to
5189s	get out there to try to help out your uh
5190s	teammate and we'll see how it's gonna be
5192s	able to go for a game number two two
5194s	Arias by the way both players have equal
5196s	access to that dagger as well the
5198s	follow-ups afterwards and what makes
5199s	that combo really hype in my opinion
5201s	Sharpie is the fact that you have to
5202s	chase after uh what direction not going
5204s	to be holding so kbi does come into
5206s	effects it's a guessing game once you
5207s	put them into the uh the mixer
5210s	I'm somewhat interested I'm really
5212s	excited I went over to Trophies edge
5213s	here I think this team I think this
5215s	match at this stage actually works out
5216s	better for five teams truthfully um I
5219s	think sky Arena platforms the ceiling is
5221s	incredibly High which makes it a little
5223s	bit harder for Superman to confirm off
5225s	the top of the stage but Arya obviously
5226s	has no issues here
5228s	um and I think it's like in this
5229s	instance uh Iron Giant is just kind of
5232s	once again like previously as you said
5233s	playing stock tank just trying to make
5235s	sure that Arya is able to go ahead and
5237s	get that damage out and trying to secure
5238s	anything because of those large hitboxes
5241s	that he does have
5243s	that's being a large hitboxes going into
5245s	the rage mode with that large hitbox now
5248s	you're gonna notice that the brush down
5249s	begins right you go on and you don't let
5251s	him set up shop this is exactly what's
5252s	going to happen you see Phantom kind of
5253s	holding forward against him trying to
5255s	get some big stuff going on fortunately
5257s	that's going to be Mexican's uh first
5259s	life going off to the stage being light
5261s	as as a butterfly gonna be in very bad
5264s	spots we get a bad spot offstage Iron
5265s	Giant an incredibly bad one going for
5267s	the l-session against Phantom finally
5269s	Dodges through managed to turn the
5270s	tables on him and brings it back to an
5272s	even game okay really really nice
5274s	covering there by Superman and Iron
5276s	Giant does come down with the butt bomb
5278s	I I refuse to call it anything else by
5279s	the way it's just such a good name
5281s	um
5282s	the butt bomb the butt bomb friend the
5285s	goodness
5287s	I actually like McGee
5293s	going into this matchup right here uh
5295s	yet again we are looking at a rage mode
5296s	Arya coming to to immediately try to
5298s	prevent some of that and we do see the
5300s	weak and sacks coming out on the enemy
5301s	Arya meaning that those Rockets are
5303s	doing a phenomenal amount of damage it's
5305s	really dangerous for Arya but you
5307s	couldn't tell because of the way that
5308s	she combed on the iron diet Thor's
5310s	coming out last minute that gray help
5311s	keeping Iron Giant alive and if not by a
5314s	stroke of blood but ultimately they are
5316s	able to secure that knockout putting the
5317s	blue team up two stops right now to Red
5319s	Heat one
5320s	yeah but that might be lasting for long
5322s	because there comes another attack and
5323s	be able to take up that Arya immediately
5325s	Phantom has to try to stay alive as long
5326s	as possible now they want to try to
5328s	secure this lead and keep the lead on
5330s	top of that but now you're gonna see
5331s	another retaliation coming out one
5333s	trading one for one that was a punish on
5335s	a punch now we are sells an insanely
5337s	even game who can get this next KO who
5339s	can get this next ring out who's gonna
5341s	be able to solidify who's gonna move
5342s	having a lead or a tied game for Game
5344s	number three now I do want to go ahead
5346s	and commend red team here specifically
5347s	the red team Mario because they are
5349s	actually getting a lot of these weekend
5350s	stats which are resulting in Blue Team
5352s	coming out a little bit negative inside
5353s	of some of these engagements they're
5355s	trying to just go ahead and rack up the
5356s	damage and Iron Giant is not necessarily
5358s	letting them off uh lock any of that
5360s	down right now because he's very quickly
5361s	following up every single time those
5363s	reasons are crazy uh like you said rage
5365s	isn't necessarily working down inside of
5367s	irons Giant's favorite side of this
5368s	instance iron Giants almost out of
5370s	recovery I thought there's a very last
5371s	one and gets back on the stage to get
5372s	those recoveries back very very clean
5375s	opportunity there by uh
5379s	but unfortunately gonna get called out
5382s	by the side special Phantom coming in
5384s	yet again to secure that final KO and
5387s	bring themselves to a 2-0 lead this is
5389s	like a really strong Edge guarding from
5391s	Phantom I feel like Phantom Superman is
5393s	playing on fire anytime he puts either
5395s	Arya or Iron Giant off stage but you'll
5397s	notice so many times especially here on
5399s	the left side you just notice that
5400s	Superman is just constantly bullying
5402s	Minnie Michael not allowing him to play
5404s	the game anytime he's like nowhere near
5405s	the middle of the stage and that's what
5407s	you have to do against the likes of Iron
5409s	Giant you have to keep them bullied
5410s	don't let him play his game don't give
5411s	him breathing room and force him to bust
5414s	out his bolts to be able to try to
5415s	escape any sort of scenario right there
5417s	we saw him in it like that could have
5419s	easily been a really really early KO
5421s	against Minnie Michael Phantom had him
5423s	at 29 damage he was starting to do his
5425s	little combo setups on the edge little
5426s	jab combos could have easily turned that
5428s	into a down attack put him into a very
5430s	precarious position off stage and go for
5431s	a potential Spike follow-up or a grab
5433s	into the boss Zone and get a really
5435s	early KO but thankfully the teammate
5437s	Arya came through bazio came to through
5439s	and save them by getting a really strong
5441s	fully charged side air with Arya against
5444s	the Superman got the KO and be able to
5446s	bring it back to a potentially
5447s	competitive game but now we have
5449s	ourselves a 2-0 lead you're at a zero
5451s	two deficit against this team that has
5452s	not lost a single set since our first
5454s	round how are you gonna be able to bring
5456s	this back you're at a 2-0 deficit how do
5458s	you climb this such an uphill battle I
5461s	think it's just I don't know man you
5463s	just got to try to stay alive yeah it's
5466s	it's really it's really somewhat Bleak
5468s	right now for the red team you're
5470s	looking at mini Michael and you're
5471s	looking at uh posi inside of these
5474s	situations and you're like it's so
5475s	incredibly close but every single time
5477s	as you said Phantom is that deciding
5479s	factor depending on whether or not
5481s	Phantom is present specifically inside
5483s	of that area of the area of that map
5485s	you're looking at a very possible
5487s	knockout or non-knack out situation and
5489s	I think they have to be very very aware
5490s	of that I don't even think that
5492s	separation is enough because even inside
5493s	of 1v1 situations uh red team hasn't
5495s	necessarily come out on top Iron Giant
5497s	usually has a really easy time against a
5500s	character like Superman but this Phantom
5503s	is just entirely too strong he's like a
5505s	ghost on the map one second he's there
5506s	one second he's not it's absolutely
5508s	ridiculously very good stun there five
5512s	uh by Posse and I I really liked it
5515s	ultimately able to get 73 now 80 off and
5518s	that may be the deciding factor in
5520s	whether or not red team is able to
5521s	secure a knockout early inside of this
5523s	match
5524s	and honestly trophy Zedge is doing
5526s	wonders for them just having this small
5528s	stage allowing Iron Man to play the game
5530s	that he wants to like if it felt like
5532s	blue team there for a second was
5533s	struggling to land down on the ground
5534s	because where did they land there was
5535s	nowhere for them to go and Iron Giant to
5537s	play the game he wants to this is the
5539s	Iron Giant that we wanted to see in that
5540s	pass game but unfortunately just
5541s	couldn't find the mark now you're gonna
5543s	notice that Phantom at 142 damage you're
5546s	gonna have to play a little bit more
5547s	save that side Special by the way the
5549s	fly from Superman really strong tool
5551s	against bolts can easily just absorb
5553s	right through it just ignore it gets
5554s	called off to the top of the stage a
5555s	potential spike in the action in the
5557s	making good save mitsubi be able to get
5560s	back on stage but barely he's gonna take
5561s	a lot of damage in the process you know
5564s	I'm I was going to say prior to both
5566s	teams literally falling wow wow wow did
5571s	he just beat and Aria at their own
5573s	dagger game go off higher giant go off
5576s	baby off the stage into the very first
5578s	knockout for The Blue Team there Phantom
5581s	and M Shin unfortunately not necessarily
5583s	inside of the lead design I don't know
5584s	why I'm saying unfortunately it's really
5586s	really positive for the red team here
5588s	wow next game wow
5594s	awesome to me please because that that
5597s	is literally what I'm excited to see
5598s	inside of these matchups this is the
5600s	adaptation I am so incredibly excited
5602s	one thing I want to go ahead and Shout
5603s	Out is the fact that even though that
5604s	very first knockout was not necessarily
5606s	grounded Iron Giant planted his iron
5609s	booty on the ground a majority of the
5611s	time and didn't go into the air unless
5613s	he knew that Arya was already there to
5615s	watch him and I think that's one of the
5616s	biggest changes that I saw inside of
5618s	this specific set the fact that red team
5620s	recognized we need to not necessarily be
5622s	inside the air we need to not let
5623s	Superman fly against us we need to be
5625s	much more careful and when you saw them
5627s	get that level of coordination that's
5628s	when you saw a lot more of these
5630s	Knockouts being secured and red team's
5632s	favor very very quickly literally in
5634s	under two minutes the very first that
5636s	that game was done it was incredibly
5638s	fast paced but what are your thoughts on
5640s	it Aussie I think it was incredibly fast
5643s	paced that I missed so actually what got
5645s	the KO against mitsuki at the very start
5648s	so I'm glad we had the replay because I
5649s	was able to analyze that and I saw what
5651s	exactly happened which was incredibly
5653s	big brain right or just insanely lucky
5655s	one of the two so what happened is you
5657s	notice that mitsu can try to chase after
5658s	the Iron Giant mini Michael off the top
5660s	left right because all they needed is
5662s	just one up bare iron guys at 180 damage
5664s	they're gonna easily get a ring out here
5665s	but what happened in says you saw that
5667s	Arya lost their life instead so why did
5670s	this happen right it's because if you
5672s	notice when Minnie Michael was coming
5674s	back down with Iron Giant he was in Rage
5675s	mode so what happened is he shot off his
5678s	Rockets before Arya got the hit so the
5681s	Rockets were right above her and they
5683s	got she got smacked by the Rockets while
5685s	they're off stage and that sent her up
5687s	flying so because he had the forethought
5689s	to shoot the Rockets before Arya could
5691s	chase after him getting caught by the
5692s	rocket send him off to the top of the
5694s	blast zone I think that's what happened
5696s	like again it happened off stage so I'm
5698s	not sure exactly what cut Arya but if I
5701s	had to guess S7 Adventure I guess it was
5703s	the Rockets while being in Rage mode see
5706s	I saw him come back down and I saw the
5708s	Thorns proc so I had assumed that armor
5710s	had
5711s	a final hit
5713s	rocket but I was a little bit unsure I'm
5715s	really interested I'm gonna definitely
5716s	have to go back to the replays yet again
5718s	after we're done casting here because
5720s	that was an incredibly exciting knockout
5721s	and I I really think that instances like
5723s	that are why I love high-level
5725s	multiverses so much you know it's so
5727s	fast it's so incredibly quick and you
5730s	have to be able to respond so quickly to
5732s	your opponent inside of matches like
5734s	this which can ultimately result in you
5736s	getting permanent momentum moving
5737s	forward to this match originally I
5739s	thought this was going to be a shout out
5740s	by Phantom but I think that uh I think
5743s	that uh posi and Minnie Michael have
5745s	actually shown that they are not going
5747s	to take this lying down we may actually
5748s	be seeing the start of a comeback here
5755s	it wouldn't be the first time that we
5757s	saw a 3-0 deficit go in the favor of the
5759s	people at the losing side but to wait
5762s	and see right because now we have the
5763s	counter pick is going to be completely
5765s	in blue team's favor for the rest of the
5766s	set so that means stages right gonna go
5768s	to uh Sky uh sky Arena with the flat
5771s	stages insanely good counter picking and
5773s	slices by Iron Giant because now you
5774s	don't feel as claustrophobic you don't
5775s	have trouble Landing anymore because
5776s	there's plenty of room for you available
5777s	to go left or right but the platforms
5780s	aren't there so that's not gonna assist
5781s	you with the landing so at the wait and
5782s	see that's gonna be able to work out for
5783s	them if it doesn't that's okay they have
5785s	another game on top of that but speaking
5786s	of another game they might not be able
5787s	to give them one Phantom off stage gets
5789s	a grab toss is Arya off stage you're
5792s	gonna notice mealy bazio was in a very
5793s	bad position gets called out again the
5795s	sincerely good KO come here from fans
5797s	don't play the offsage game to his
5799s	finest moments
5801s	really good coordination here by Blue
5803s	Team I'm noticing they're literally not
5804s	going anywhere separated every single
5806s	time this this is what I'm scared about
5808s	right now Aussie Aussie every single one
5810s	of these situations has almost been like
5812s	literally seconds off of being a double
5813s	KO and it's always resulted in two
5815s	stocks being lost it looks like they are
5817s	trading one for one right now which is
5819s	not necessarily what you want to do
5820s	against a Superman or an Iron Giant team
5822s	it's incredibly volatile right now for
5824s	both teams
5825s	yeah red team being at high damage on
5828s	top of that not going to be looking good
5830s	for them right oh wait hold on a second
5832s	Phantom was in a bad spot uses the fly
5833s	goes right through those bolts doesn't
5835s	even care rage mode activate let's see
5837s	what we're gonna be able to do have to
5838s	avoid that green ball comes down with
5839s	the body slam gets the big hit because
5841s	you saw that uh corito was stuck in the
5844s	ball for a second mitsuki has to be able
5846s	to look out for it here we go gets
5848s	hollowed by another side special
5849s	offstage another fully charged cider
5852s	hold on a second oh managed to retaliate
5855s	it's still there
5857s	has to be careful it has to be
5858s	incredibly careful there right now okay
5860s	the dagger is now gone no rage mode to
5862s	speak up because we didn't go ahead and
5863s	get it and that knockout means that
5865s	Superman is fighting a 2V1 situation
5866s	Arya does go ahead and respawn so now
5868s	they have changed their sides over to
5870s	that Aria it looks as though Arya is
5872s	just trying to keep them off of her
5873s	right now and at a hundred percent red
5876s	team Arya is a nasty position no dagger
5878s	but that does secure The Knockout moving
5880s	Phantom and M Shin up on the loser side
5883s	inside of a 3-1 situation they are
5885s	incredibly hot right now honestly I
5887s	don't know if anybody I don't know if
5889s	anybody can deny them the wins that they
5891s	want
5893s	no absolutely not just shutting down
5895s	this loser's bracket run from bazio and
5898s	Minnie Michael denying them any further
5900s	climb but honestly congratulations to
5902s	them for getting seventh place and
5904s	qualifying for finals off of losing
5906s	their first round of the tournament so
5908s	they might be sad about their loss here
5910s	today but they cannot be sad about being
5911s	able to qualify here in a couple weeks
5913s	Phantom and Mexican moving on to the
5915s	bracket though they got a lot more to
5916s	prove here with this Superman Arya team
5918s	is going to go back into losers quarters
5920s	later on in the day fantastic gameplay
5923s	from both teams all around Phantom was
5925s	definitely playing out of his mind in my
5926s	opinion I feel like if I had to name an
5928s	MVP it would be Phantom he just got so
5931s	many early ring outs off stage
5932s	especially against the likes of Iron
5934s	Giant who thrives of being able to
5936s	survive for as long as possible Iron
5938s	Giant takes the tank roll to a literal
5941s	role like he like I am my job is to just
5944s	be alive and not lose my lives then
5947s	that's exactly what they were doing and
5948s	Phantom was just denying him that access
5950s	you know in addition it's also really
5952s	important to note that is the very first
5954s	time that their eggs has actually been a
5956s	3-1 inside of top eight so that's in no
5960s	way shape or form uh I don't think
5962s	truthfully that uh posi or mini Michael
5964s	have anything to be ashamed of that was
5965s	a fantastic showing in an amazing
5968s	amazing uh Showcase in general from all
5971s	of those matches I really appreciate it
5973s	uh watching it but one of the things I
5974s	wanted to shout out specifically was
5976s	some of the follow-ups that I felt like
5978s	mini Michael uh the Arya player actually
5980s	had in a lot of those setups I I want to
5982s	note that Iron Giant did a fantastic job
5984s	of being the big body of getting a lot
5986s	of of getting a lot and blocking a lot
5988s	of the pressure being on Arya but there
5990s	were several times where Arya followed
5992s	up and basically made situations that
5994s	ended up becoming either a double
5996s	knockout or a knockout in and of itself
5998s	and I think that's a that's a that's a
5999s	real that's a real talent that can get
6001s	you far inside of future matches of
6003s	course but unfortunately as you said
6004s	previously uh they're no longer inside
6006s	the bracket we are going to see Phantom
6007s	uh and his teammate moving forward
6009s	inside of this bracket but I do have to
6010s	ask uh what was your personal favorite
6013s	part as I have that previous match
6014s	Aussie was there anything that really
6016s	stood out to you that you're excited to
6017s	see later on in the bracket coming out
6019s	uh from Phantom and uh imshin
6022s	brother I could go on and on about what
6024s	I liked about that last set but I can't
6026s	unfortunately because guys we gotta go
6027s	to a quick break don't go anywhere we'll
6030s	be right back
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6667s	welcome back to multiverses fall
6669s	Showdown European open number two trying
6673s	to find our last eight players to put
6675s	into the qualifiers two weeks from now
6676s	we already have our top eight here now a
6679s	top six two teams unfortunately going
6681s	down pretty early on there in seventh
6682s	place but of course into the nature of a
6684s	bracket it's gonna happen that's just
6686s	how things work out but my name is
6687s	Aussie I'm joined here by Sharpie
6689s	Sharpie house kicks how's everything
6691s	going for you you know everything's
6692s	going really really well because we had
6694s	such an exciting round one outside of
6696s	this top eight we had amazing players
6698s	like Babar and El Rey on the bottom side
6702s	of the bracket going up against Eck and
6704s	uh Joseph who actually ultimately lost
6707s	to Babar and Elroy we had Byron and rip
6709s	move forward inside the bracket against
6711s	Trump and ponak on the winner side we
6713s	had pleb and Timmy ultimately fall short
6715s	to two Senpai and MJ moving forward on
6718s	bracket well they'll be playing against
6720s	Byron and rip and inside of that
6721s	previous match we actually had Phantom
6723s	and M Shin play against Posse and many
6725s	Michael who ultimately won and Phantom
6727s	and emption will be moving forward
6729s	inside of the loser's bracket as well so
6731s	we have quite an exciting top eight plan
6733s	but I want to remind everybody watching
6736s	this tournament and listening inside of
6737s	chat that you can stay tuned with all of
6740s	the amazing High comprehensive Clips
6743s	replays and dissections by going over to
6745s	twitter.com mvsgaming and making sure
6748s	that you're keeping abroad with
6750s	everything going on inside of the
6752s	competitive multiverses Community now
6754s	Aussie as we go into this very next
6756s	match of viren and VIP versus two Senpai
6759s	and oh I apologize this is actually
6761s	appears as though it's actually of a bar
6764s	is is that Babar in Elroy am I correct
6767s	this is uh this is pleb tank and Timmy
6769s	facing off against Babar and Elroy yeah
6771s	that's the first show we're going to be
6772s	seeing here so you're going to notice
6774s	that uh with Iron Giant and uh Morty
6777s	right that's the team they've been
6777s	running a lot recently we've been seeing
6779s	a lot of iron Giants today a lot of
6780s	mortys today seems to be quite the
6783s	DraStic difference from two weeks ago EU
6785s	opened number one we saw nothing but
6787s	like Bugs Bunnies and Harleys so not
6789s	seeing either of those characters today
6791s	is so like uh I'm like experiencing
6793s	Whiplash a little bit it's it's really
6796s	nice to see uh kind of like that there's
6799s	an established understanding that Morty
6801s	appears to be a very very popular
6802s	character right now inside of the state
6805s	of multiverses especially at this level
6806s	so I'm personally really enjoying it but
6809s	as we go here this is I actually I
6811s	believe the very first time we're going
6812s	to be in promulence this top eight an
6814s	exciting stage to say the least
6817s	yeah I gotta show us what you've got
6819s	here we go game number one The Blue Team
6821s	versus red so you got Morty's on both
6823s	sides having that home field advantage
6825s	with the uh Rick and Morty stage
6827s	extraordinaire up the wingtail is going
6829s	to be a Play-Doh interesting starting
6830s	stage by the way because with Elroy
6832s	specifically you have plenty of room to
6833s	be able to run away from if you have to
6835s	go for the bolts you have plenty of
6836s	rooms just kind of like space them out
6837s	if he wants to but also helps him when
6839s	he wants to build bolts himself so it's
6841s	kind of like a double-edged sword a
6843s	little bit based on what it says you
6844s	want to go to so this is what they
6845s	agreed to I'm gonna see how he's going
6847s	to be able to play out blue team right
6848s	up the gate already got pretty low
6850s	damage you notice this Chase hold on a
6851s	second that was a really bad spot to be
6853s	I mean he had to pop those bolts in
6855s	order to escape that situation
6856s	oh I'm really really appreciating how
6859s	hard they are sticking to this Iron
6860s	Giant there's literally only one
6862s	character on The Blue Team that's
6864s	considered an assassin but both Morty
6865s	and iron and Finn are making sure that
6868s	Iron Giant is not allowed to get away
6869s	with anything inside this bracket uh we
6872s	do see no necessarily fall up there
6874s	there was no up air to go ahead and
6876s	knock out that road spin uh I'm sorry
6879s	that Rose Morty but we are seeing a lot
6881s	of projectiles being tossed out right
6883s	now a knockout on the red horny but no
6886s	knockout on that Iron Giant successfully
6888s	falls back to the States and now we're
6889s	back inside of seemingly neutral
6893s	yeah I'm just getting sent out there I'm
6897s	noticing a lot from Club tank not only
6899s	in this set but in the assets that he's
6900s	been doing a lot of high fires as you
6902s	don't see too often from fence but it's
6904s	a pretty strong tool it looks like Elroy
6905s	was out of fuel to be able to fall down
6907s	to the blast one it's gonna be the first
6908s	life for red team and first playing the
6910s	board for blue but unfortunately red
6912s	team doing a fantastic job of just
6914s	staying light but bartering a great job
6916s	of just being the tank even though he's
6918s	not the tank in this role that's iron
6919s	Giants roll he's sitting at 52 damage
6921s	and letting everyone take all of the
6922s	bruising and beating while he just stays
6923s	in the background plays this eight-point
6925s	game gets the healing off of it uses the
6927s	teleports to get rid of the debuff be
6929s	able to save his teammate and just shoot
6931s	projectiles from a distance very smart
6933s	stuff
6934s	I'm greatly appreciating Iron Giant
6937s	survivability right now we've really
6938s	only seen a singular knockout on iron
6941s	diet right now and it's really up to him
6943s	to be this huge stock as we go into this
6946s	very possible final fourth stop for the
6948s	red team they have to secure three
6950s	additional Knockouts in order to stay
6951s	inside of this set with a possible win
6954s	and that down special does recover the
6957s	fin all the way back on the other side
6959s	of the state what an amazingly thought
6962s	out Dawn special there by The Blue Team
6964s	Warrior
6965s	oh man you caught up by that up air
6968s	you'll be able to send him flying
6969s	towards the Blast Zone look at this
6971s	combo tune coming out from fleb tank
6972s	trying to get something going gets
6974s	called out by the booty bomb gonna be
6975s	able to survive a little bit longer
6976s	against caught up pull the snake sit
6978s	down and now it's on plug tank I love
6981s	that recovery I cannot stress how great
6982s	that recovery was Club tank recognized
6985s	that he was out of resources at a very
6986s	low damage so he stalled off stage by
6989s	swinging his Aerials over and over again
6990s	for Timmy to respawn in and use the save
6993s	point to get danger instead of risking
6995s	too many damage or potentially you're
6996s	taking a very early KO very smart
6999s	Synergy coming from their team oh
7001s	unfortunately did not get that final hit
7003s	on Iron Giant to go ahead and secure
7005s	that knockout iron daddy is getting
7007s	pretty at 174 exactly the thing that you
7009s	expect from an Iron Giant enzymulons
7011s	just really careful with that final
7013s	stock right now and ultimately both
7015s	teams just need one more time blue team
7017s	looking a lot more healthy but on a
7019s	stage like this it's truthfully
7020s	anybody's game
7022s	yeah right now though it's not looking
7024s	too clean and reds team just purely
7026s	based off of elroy's damage dude look at
7028s	that 185 one more big swing off stage
7031s	could potentially end this but hold on a
7033s	second you see if it was kind of in a
7034s	bad spot there it gets called down I
7036s	heard The Sweet Spot sound effect Ben's
7038s	gonna be able to clutch that out and put
7040s	a point on the board for pleb tank and
7042s	Timmy surviving until 202 is something
7046s	that I think that Iron Giant can be very
7048s	very proud of inside of this matchup
7049s	look at the number of times that Iron
7051s	Giant is literally being knocked off and
7053s	not necessarily resulting inside of a
7056s	knockout almost everything
7058s	follow every single one of these
7061s	follow-ups right here you can see Iron
7062s	Giant really doesn't get knocked out
7064s	that last one obviously a little bit of
7066s	exception but like it's kind of
7068s	ridiculous just how long iron giant's
7070s	able to live inside of these some of
7071s	these situations right here I really
7073s	liked the these two follow-up Knockouts
7075s	by the red team I think they did a great
7077s	job at securing them and I think they
7079s	did a really good job of being
7081s	understanding and trying to take impress
7082s	that Advantage is what I love to see
7084s	that type of follow-up that type of
7085s	coordination but ultimately inside this
7087s	final knockout situation getting that
7089s	iron diet up to 202 right here for a
7093s	final knockout I mean at that point
7095s	you've earned it at that point you've
7096s	earned it right like just give it to him
7098s	there's something beautiful about an
7100s	Iron Giant that can live that long but
7102s	also have a Morty to save his life every
7105s	single time I'm telling you man if
7107s	there's an MVP move of the today's
7109s	tournament it's definitely a safe point
7110s	I don't know how many ring outs Morty
7112s	himself for today has prevented from
7114s	happening just being able to bring his
7116s	teammate back to the clutches I remember
7118s	when the move first came out it wasn't
7119s	working as intended like it was you'd
7122s	have to be like very specific for it to
7123s	actually save you but as mortys have
7125s	gotten better and the move got a little
7126s	bit buffed it's actually working out
7128s	phenomenally it's not like an easy thing
7130s	to do yes it is only one button push but
7132s	you can't be committing to anything you
7134s	can't be in the midst of trying to combo
7136s	someone you can't be shooting off a
7137s	projectile you can't be like being
7140s	comboed yourself you have to be
7142s	literally pushing no buttons you can't
7143s	be mashing in order to get that save
7145s	point to work out for you so it requires
7147s	patience as a virtue is such a strong
7150s	asset to have as a Morty Mane
7152s	personally really appreciating some of
7154s	the fluidity throughout these matches
7157s	we're noticing that Finn is uh firstly I
7160s	wanna I wanna shout out triple recovery
7162s	on or triple jump on all of the perks
7165s	for The Blue Team here because the that
7167s	that that dedicated secondary jump
7169s	recovery has been doing wonders for them
7172s	inside of these matchups and has been
7174s	really helping make sure that they're
7175s	able to follow up on the majority of
7177s	these of these moves especially on
7179s	crimeulons with a really large stage I'd
7180s	be interested in seeing if we actually
7182s	do go back to cromulons I don't
7183s	necessarily believe it is in blue team's
7185s	favor inside of this instance uh but I
7187s	I'm still I'm still I'm excited I'm
7189s	excited to see uh mostly because red
7191s	team has the counterfeit I don't think
7193s	we'll see them go over to Sky Arena's no
7196s	platform yeah we're going back to
7197s	promulence okay
7198s	um interesting thing interesting thing
7200s	to save at least I I I feel as though if
7203s	you can't do it the first time at
7204s	communes you move you know but but I'm
7207s	not playing they are and it's nah man
7210s	run it back run it back
7213s	give me that run back that's why that's
7216s	how I'm feeling I think that's how red
7217s	team is feeling it they felt pretty
7218s	confident on that that first game they
7220s	were just having a little bit of trouble
7222s	sometimes but now they're coming back
7224s	into it and fighting with the Vengeance
7225s	unfortunately Elroy already at 110. the
7228s	game just started taking so much damage
7230s	off the game that's the nature of fish
7232s	being an Iron Giant main though just
7233s	having that
7235s	um that
7236s	potential ability to be able to just get
7238s	comboed and explode at a very early
7240s	damage it's something scary to be on the
7242s	lookout for
7243s	I'm somewhat somewhat surprised that uh
7247s	bluetooth's Morty is able to really just
7249s	sit back and kind of play more of a mage
7251s	role inside of this instance uh playing
7253s	with the projectile and grenade game to
7255s	kind of keep Iron Giant at Bay and keep
7257s	Iron Giant away from his own Morty
7259s	inside of this instant um it's really
7261s	really nice to see Tim acknowledge that
7263s	and understand that his job here is
7265s	really just to kind of Provide support
7267s	to the vet
7269s	yeah just being able to try to Survivor
7271s	as long as possible such as a powerful
7273s	tool to have in your asset but now all
7276s	of a sudden 201 damage on Elroy trying
7278s	to survive a little bit as long as you
7279s	can you notice this Chase from uh flap
7282s	tank he's trying to get out there
7283s	unfortunately gets caught out by the
7285s	green orb of Doom down here not gonna be
7287s	able to finish him off morning gonna be
7288s	able to survive a little bit longer it's
7290s	called out by the dump from top of the
7292s	screen what are you doing in that
7293s	situation
7294s	yeah triple jump does not assist inside
7297s	that situation did you go ahead and try
7299s	to recover but wasn't able to do it
7300s	because that UFO was still on pool down
7302s	there a really really nice weekend come
7305s	out here on that fin is racked up at 161
7308s	right now and with an Iron Giant hot on
7310s	his tail he has to be careful it has to
7312s	be aggressive and with very few
7314s	recoveries being able to get back on
7315s	stage immediately getting butt bounced
7317s	that's the type of awareness that we're
7319s	looking for with Iron Giant here very
7322s	very very good you know at first I was
7323s	kind of questioning thing but the way
7325s	that I'm watching Elroy moves now it
7327s	makes a lot of sense about why they
7329s	count back over to the stage
7331s	yeah it's just uh it because when the
7334s	stereos sounds go away the series are
7336s	gone it's actually a pretty
7337s	claustrophobic stage with Iron Giant can
7339s	thrive on unfortunately he's kind of
7341s	having trouble getting back on stage
7342s	currently and caught by a constant
7344s	amount of down attacks and downers from
7346s	flood tank but because of iron giant's
7347s	highways you'll be able to survive to
7349s	fight another day Morty gonna try to get
7351s	back on stage here we're sitting at 123
7353s	damage let's see if you can try to
7355s	survive it's another down air Iron Giant
7357s	surviving the fight again
7358s	have to be very careful right now I feel
7361s	the the biggest issue right now for the
7363s	blue team is actually managing the
7364s	recoveries the minute they go off stage
7366s	because Iron Giant is so easily able to
7368s	say I'm a bird I'm a plate I'm an Iron
7370s	Giant Mane uh I I you have to be careful
7373s	about that man they can just come
7374s	through the sky and knock you out of it
7375s	you know
7377s	that's exactly what he's doing just
7379s	falling down this guy coming down with
7381s	the body slam the Cannonball
7382s	extraordinaire and now all of a sudden
7384s	they find himself both on Match Point
7386s	the thing is Club tank is the one that
7388s	has to try to stay alive a little bit
7390s	longer you'll notice that plug Tank's
7391s	gonna take like the back wall a little
7392s	bit here because he is out of 88 damage
7394s	we'll see if they can be able to just
7395s	hold on a second double combo damage the
7397s	shabama BAM all of a sudden Babar is
7400s	that triple digits off of that one small
7402s	combo and now this can turn into
7405s	something great of course valar's gonna
7406s	be the one be in the back line that's
7407s	Morty's job stay back there let Iron
7409s	Dragon take the brunt of the work
7411s	because he's gonna try to be able to you
7413s	know
7413s	be in there for as long as he can gets
7416s	caught by the hammer more still survives
7417s	135 damages the UFO to recharge
7419s	resources get back on stage there's a
7421s	side Specialists are having trouble he's
7422s	been off stage his entire time sees a
7424s	touchdown on the ground managed to
7425s	finally touch grass survive a little bit
7427s	longer look out for that green ball
7428s	coming in who throws the gems once the
7431s	other special not gonna be able to give
7432s	it to him gets called out by The
7433s	Cannonball jumps off stage what he's
7435s	gonna be able to be able to find out
7436s	just needs one big hit
7438s	sliding and charged up attack runs
7441s	across the entirety of cromulons to get
7444s	that swing and send him off to the top
7446s	blue team takes yet another point for
7448s	themselves now looking at this very last
7451s	match there are a couple things that I
7452s	wanted to actually notate specifically
7453s	about plebs Play Because while pleb did
7455s	secure that final knockout I saw a
7457s	couple things that were a little bit
7458s	concerning the first of which is that
7459s	pleb actually went for another aerial
7461s	high five several times inside the
7463s	bracket inside of this previous match I
7465s	actually thought it happened twice
7466s	inside of this match and I saw it twice
7467s	inside the match previous to this
7468s	neither time has connected that's a
7470s	total of four attempts with a zero
7472s	percent confirm um that that final final
7474s	confirm for that final knockout which
7477s	we'll see in but a few moment here was
7478s	so incredibly important because as you
7479s	said it was a sliding incoming so it
7482s	really was incredibly dangerous
7483s	especially with plebs sitting there at
7485s	an incredibly high percentage especially
7488s	against an Iron Giant you're looking and
7490s	you're playing with fire like this you
7493s	know you Iron Giant is right there
7495s	literally just one one aerial away from
7498s	knocking you back out into the blast
7501s	zone and you have to be incredibly
7502s	careful but I really do like that
7504s	wherewithal that both pleb and uh and
7506s	Timmy had going into the final match up
7508s	I truthfully if you would if you had
7510s	asked me to put down money they would
7512s	not have been my pick coming out on top
7513s	inside of that previous match but I'm
7515s	really happy that they did because now
7516s	they have an opportunity to bring that
7518s	momentum back onto their side inside of
7520s	this set
7521s	yeah the fact that they have a 2-0 lead
7523s	now is something that's going to be very
7525s	scary for red team to try to bring back
7528s	from the depths of Despair right because
7530s	now it's like okay do you actually do
7532s	the run back another time do you go back
7534s	to crimeulons or do you try to mix it up
7536s	for this because no matter what happens
7538s	in the set this is your final counter
7539s	pick win or lose that's that's just the
7541s	results of it so if you win this you
7543s	lose all access to whatever stages you
7545s	want to pick you can only ban a couple
7546s	stages and the enemy team does have the
7548s	advantage in terms of where the scenery
7550s	is going to be one thing that I really
7552s	enjoyed from that previous set was just
7553s	pleb tank going in there and trying to
7555s	stay alive while also trying to secure
7557s	those Kos right being like the true to
7560s	Assassin Forum trying to like sneak in
7562s	there find those Kos when it matters get
7563s	those hits when it does like matter the
7566s	most and I like that we've seen this a
7568s	lot from this Germany team which we've
7570s	been seeing a lot from you'll also
7572s	notice that Finn not really spending
7574s	gold the way you think he would right in
7577s	the game whenever you collect a lot of
7579s	gold how Finn's Mechanics Work is when
7580s	you hit someone they drop a gold coin if
7583s	you or your teammate pick that gold coin
7584s	up that's 100 gold to Finn Finn can then
7587s	spend that gold on a myriad of resources
7589s	right you can open up the shop choose
7591s	goose is shop you can open up get some
7593s	speed boots which speeds up uh your
7595s	Mobility for you and your teammate you
7597s	can buy a projectile armor or you could
7598s	buy which is just a big karate chop
7601s	that can kill really early on but what
7604s	we're seeing primarily uses that gold is
7606s	for Gem toss is that's what we're seeing
7608s	at a top levels fins primarily don't
7610s	want to waste their gold on anything
7611s	except for Gem toss is because it's such
7614s	a valuable resource it only costs 100
7616s	gold and allows you to teleport to
7618s	wherever that gem is going to be so if
7620s	you're off stage and disadvantage and
7622s	you toss it to the middle of the stage
7623s	you just teleport right towards it it's
7626s	that easy it only costs 100 coins
7628s	meanwhile if you try to like spend it
7630s	like on speed boots or if you try to
7632s	spend it on especially by the
7635s	way is like a big gamble if you
7636s	spend 800 gold on and you use that
7639s	karate I think it's 500 now actually if
7641s	you that much gold on I forget
7643s	because you never see it but demo cost
7645s	so much gold if you see the chop you
7648s	spend that goal it's gone you just threw
7650s	away that gold it's no longer there
7651s	because it because it wears off after
7653s	that so instead of putting it on
7654s	something gamble you want something more
7656s	permanent like a gem toss Elliott you
7657s	somewhere like speed boots which
7659s	sometimes you'll see finzu because it's
7660s	a permanent buff until one of you
7661s	explodes so now we're gonna jump into
7663s	game three or straight back to chromilon
7665s	Sharpie I
7668s	you know once again it's their toys and
7671s	Stage not necessarily the choice I would
7673s	have made tell me I don't understand I
7674s	want to hear it I I want to hear it go
7677s	off I really badly want them to go to
7679s	treefort or to Scooby's mansion inside
7681s	of this matchup I I I I I I'm saying let
7685s	the cards lie where they're made
7686s	obviously crimeulons is not necessarily
7689s	working out the way you want but I if I
7691s	I appreciate their tenacity if nothing
7693s	else
7694s	um in hindsight it's 20 20. it's really
7696s	easy for me to sit here on the
7697s	commentator's desk and say the stage
7699s	isn't working out for you go somewhere
7701s	else the higher giant has multiple uh
7704s	multiple good counter picks but I also
7705s	don't know what the counter picks needs
7706s	to look like I don't know if treefort
7708s	was up on the table I don't know if
7709s	Scooby's on the table and I don't know
7711s	if the team feels comfortable with
7712s	Scooby's Mansion the way that certain
7714s	iron Giants do so it's it's really just
7716s	whatever they feel comfortable with and
7718s	to be honest that's more important
7720s	inside of the side of the bracket than
7721s	anything else and as we look at this
7723s	right now you're seeing seeing
7726s	unfortunately that iron diet can scrape
7729s	through the glass Zone to be the very
7730s	first knockout for the blue team's favor
7732s	you can't help but think promulence you
7736s	know
7736s	let's just see if red team's able to
7738s	make this book we do see the projectile
7740s	game coming out from Iron Giant already
7741s	at 118 that enemy Morty flying right now
7746s	uh pleb is not taking any of this lying
7749s	down and it immediately resources his
7751s	teammate even though he is at 82 and
7753s	we're seeing Timmy try to fly around and
7757s	prevent himself from getting hit there
7758s	nope no follow-up from that Iron Giant
7760s	just trying to recover right now and
7762s	trying not to get down here it appears
7764s	ultimately missing that Morty down here
7766s	quickly easy to dodge very very nice
7768s	clean play so far by the red team who is
7770s	unfortunately two stocks under the board
7772s	team right now not looking super great
7773s	for them
7774s	yeah Timmy you know obviously just kind
7776s	of like pick his choices carefully right
7779s	like who are you gonna go after it's
7780s	more important to try to get that Spike
7781s	Iron Giant or save your teammate and get
7783s	a kill on top of that speaking of chaos
7785s	it's gonna be the first one for red team
7786s	gonna be able to try to tie this up
7788s	potentially they can get one more on
7790s	that club tank not allowing them just
7792s	swing in that sort of his over and over
7793s	again just getting constant amount of
7795s	hits on both of the opponents goes up
7797s	there chases after him gets the near
7799s	kick into it up there things are looking
7801s	believe for red team things are really
7804s	not super great here uh no follow-up
7806s	luckily for that Iron Giant unluckily
7809s	for that Finn who immediately recovers
7811s	because of that down special from Morty
7813s	right there uh that could be death every
7815s	single time I see Iron Giant gold beside
7817s	this Blast Zone I am just praying for
7819s	him to be able to recover back to the
7820s	ground because that's the stage that's
7822s	the state that the red team's in right
7823s	now it almost feels as though they're
7824s	playing right now just to not lose which
7826s	is what you want to be in as soon as
7827s	that final knockout comes out because
7829s	now ultimately pleb and Timmy move
7831s	forward on this loser's bracket side 3-0
7834s	over El Rey and
7838s	Germany's last reps making it all the
7841s	way to top four of this bracket pleb
7843s	tank and Timmy getting a very strong 3-0
7846s	to secure themselves that guaranteed
7848s	spot meanwhile the bar in Elroy going
7850s	down at the fifth place finish again
7851s	it's okay they qualified for finals they
7853s	can prove themselves again here two
7855s	weeks from now but right now at this
7856s	point people are fighting for this
7858s	tournament alone they're fighting for
7859s	seating purposes and they're fighting
7861s	for that Moolah on the line you know you
7863s	want to take some of that big chunk
7864s	change yes the file is gonna have way
7866s	more money on the line but there's still
7867s	a healthy amount here today for sure and
7870s	you know going into these matches I've
7872s	always noticed uh that like it almost is
7876s	always truthfully up to the very first
7879s	team who wins the match to kind of
7881s	retain that momentum lead going through
7883s	it I think the only time we've ever seen
7884s	it broke it so so far inside of the
7886s	match is actually when we were watching
7888s	um the phantom and emson match
7891s	previously before the break which was
7893s	Superman and Arya notoriously and we
7895s	actually saw uh pazia mini Michael uh
7898s	actually go through inside of that third
7900s	game and claim themselves a win but
7902s	every other match has been a 3-0 like we
7904s	just saw so as we go into this very next
7906s	match of uh Trav and ponic versus
7909s	phantom and emson I'm kind of interested
7911s	to see as to whether or not they will
7913s	continue kind of like the 3-0 shutout
7915s	that we've seen so far in the entirety
7917s	of this bracket or whether or not
7918s	they'll actually change it slightly up
7920s	do you have any thoughts as to any
7921s	predictions we may see in this upcoming
7923s	match here
7924s	uh if history repeats itself especially
7927s	with the last couple tournaments that we
7928s	saw 3os tend to be really common until
7930s	we get near the end of the bracket when
7932s	I say near the end of the bracket I mean
7933s	like top four uh it's just like some
7935s	teams just kind of figure it out and
7937s	then they have it solve for the rest of
7939s	the set we did see a three two uh two
7941s	Senpai and MJ taking it out on blood
7943s	tank and Timmy sending them down to
7944s	losers that was a 3-2 uh finish that we
7946s	saw over winners but like you said
7947s	everything else
7949s	30303130 so tons of those uh unfortunate
7954s	30s that you've been seeing I I would
7957s	say it's probably going to be another
7958s	3-0 the question is who's gonna do it
7961s	right because panics and trab they're
7963s	the ones that came from uh Winner's side
7965s	they uh so they already didn't like lose
7968s	yet so getting sent all the way down
7970s	there try to see if they can try to like
7972s	lose a second time because one of the
7973s	worst things you can do when you go into
7974s	a top eight is go zero two right getting
7977s	fifth place in top eight from Winter
7980s	side is like the most unfortunate
7981s	placement because it's just like wow top
7983s	eight date came here I am and I lost
7985s	both my sets good night everybody like
7988s	it's a hard place to occupy for sure and
7990s	since we are obviously both fighting
7992s	game players we we both know the feeling
7994s	and I'm sure that there are thousands of
7996s	Watchers right now and and hundreds of
7998s	people inside the chat who can
7999s	unfortunately also relate to that
8001s	feeling as well so uh obviously as we go
8004s	into this very next set we're not
8005s	wishing uh laws on either one but I'm
8007s	incredibly excited to see how Phantom
8010s	and imshin perform inside of this next
8012s	match the previous time that Phantom and
8014s	emson actually played I saw a very good
8017s	adaptation from their opponents which I
8019s	ultimately thought may result inside of
8021s	a victory for them but they ultimately
8023s	got shut down the very next match uh you
8026s	mentioned several times inside of the
8028s	very last match where we saw Phantom and
8030s	imshin that they are playing quote
8032s	unquote hot which to those of you who
8033s	may not necessarily be familiar with
8034s	fighting games or competitive game it's
8036s	basically the idea that playing
8038s	consistently on a tear on a on an uh on
8042s	a uh up slant basically consistently
8044s	winning and just uh steamrolling your
8046s	opponent with every opportunity that you
8048s	get do you believe that they may
8050s	continue this going into this round two
8052s	of losers
8054s	I think it's either that or they're
8056s	going to get steamrolled I legit think
8058s	that this set is going to be a 3-0 I
8060s	just don't know who's going to get the
8062s	3-0 that's if I were to guess I don't
8063s	know both but just watching both teams
8065s	play that's just kind of like the vibe
8067s	that I got especially from pantom's team
8069s	and uh this is the first time these guys
8071s	are fighting each other which by the way
8073s	that last set they fought the winners uh
8075s	plug tank and Timmy actually sent Babar
8077s	and Elroy two losers and then double
8078s	eliminated them so whenever you see
8080s	something like that that's super
8081s	unfortunate going down in the fifth
8082s	place finish but this time around we're
8085s	not seeing that this is the first time
8087s	these guys are facing off against each
8088s	other so anything is possible panic's
8091s	coming from Netherlands trab from Sweden
8093s	facing off against Phantom who honestly
8096s	this Superman and uh the mitsuki uh the
8100s	Arya representing France it's gonna be
8102s	kind of like a who which Region's gonna
8104s	come out on top who's gonna be able to
8106s	win this who's gonna be able to try to
8108s	represent EU in fashion and honestly I
8111s	can't wait to see what we're gonna be
8112s	able to bring to the table because this
8114s	bracket so far we've seen very little of
8116s	France and the reason for that is
8118s	because they all qualified in the two
8120s	weeks ago I think in Europe France is
8122s	one of the most dominating countries out
8123s	there they've been like pushing the
8126s	Esports scene very hard consistently
8128s	having insanely high turnouts for their
8130s	start.gg brackets especially all the
8132s	Grassroots tournaments they've been
8133s	putting on and so to see them like have
8135s	like five people qual five teams qualify
8138s	two weeks ago did not Shock me at all so
8140s	to see that there's only one France rep
8142s	in this bracket this top eight is like
8145s	okay that's because they all qualify
8146s	already so France has always been on top
8148s	and I won't be shocked that they managed
8150s	to push this even further Beyond fifth
8152s	place he's just gonna have to face off
8153s	against this Fin and Rain dog first
8155s	now I want to go ahead and Shout out a
8157s	perk that I actually saw Phantom taking
8159s	here who is the Superman player I saw
8161s	the perk of hit him when they're down
8162s	now that perk is not necessarily stacked
8164s	it's just a solo perk but it does
8166s	increase via damage by five percent when
8168s	you are hitting D buffed enemies an
8171s	incredibly strong perk especially when
8173s	you consider the fact that Arya has the
8175s	ability to already debuff enemies by
8178s	giving them that weakened perk
8180s	increasing the amount of damage that
8181s	they get so you're looking at situations
8183s	where uh Superman will be able to secure
8186s	even more Knockouts than previously it's
8188s	really just going to come down to
8189s	awareness and whether or not rain dog's
8191s	able to stay and safely out of
8193s	Superman's grass now as we go into this
8195s	round star we already see in a very very
8196s	immediate hustle both players trying to
8199s	go ahead and get onto that Arya blue
8201s	team very quickly trying to sandwich
8203s	that Arya not necessarily uh not
8205s	necessarily succeeding inside of this
8206s	1v1 situation ultimately taking more
8208s	damage than they're able to dish out
8209s	inside the situation brain dog trying to
8211s	move back in ultimately not coming out
8213s	on top it's just a very big scramble
8214s	situation
8216s	yeah meanwhile Phantom you know he's
8218s	gonna chill near the top of the screen
8220s	shut those laser eyes which is one of
8222s	the safer moves for him to do it's on
8223s	cooldown now but he's already at 122.
8226s	they seem to be struggling to get any
8228s	sort of like stage control right now
8229s	Onyx and trap kind of dominating the
8232s	center stage currently Traub off stage
8234s	you notice that fox is going to come in
8235s	and try to assist but unfortunately a
8237s	sweet spot coming out from Arya sending
8239s	him flying to the Blaster and 75 damage
8241s	they were losing that entire game and to
8244s	have that turn the tables on them that
8246s	soon could spell the rest of the story
8248s	for the rest of this game oh for sure a
8250s	very good stun there by that Arya to go
8253s	ahead and secure that down here on
8254s	Rainbow getting him a secondary knockout
8256s	inside this crucial first match right
8258s	now now the Reds team can't necessarily
8259s	let down because they are both at a very
8262s	very formidable percent of course as we
8264s	know Superman is a tank so that 179 is
8266s	gonna get him further than Arya but aryo
8268s	getting hit by a couple of years and
8270s	that is a double KO putting blue team
8272s	back on this map right now and suddenly
8273s	this game's looking a lot more even than
8275s	we thought previously
8277s	what makes Finn such a strong Contender
8279s	is being able to charge up those attacks
8281s	on the ground to make them even stronger
8283s	he ran up got the upswing on both of
8285s	them and sent them both lines to the top
8287s	of the blast zone unfortunately they're
8288s	both at high damage right now Phantom
8290s	one point away from sending them into a
8293s	1-0 lead and right now the Target and
8295s	everyone's eyes is on panics and spin
8298s	look at him he's trying to survive
8299s	trying to get on a rain dog on top of
8301s	that try to prevent him to be able to
8302s	use the tether to bring him back into
8303s	the thing they're gonna kind of wait
8305s	this out a little bit get away from that
8306s	passive damage just decided to open them
8307s	up smack him up smackaroo gets the up
8310s	there gets another one
8318s	oh that was incredibly viewed I really
8321s	enjoyed watching that uh Not only was
8324s	blue team able to very quickly take uh
8326s	control of the match after these first
8328s	two Knockouts from the red team which I
8330s	do want to commend uh the red team on
8331s	because it was very very awareness I I
8334s	actually thought the sun was used there
8335s	and I didn't realize it was used later I
8337s	almost felt it must have just been The
8339s	Knockout from uh the side there but that
8341s	double knockout that we just saw inside
8343s	that replay almost appeared to be an
8345s	actual tie changing knockout here
8348s	because after that point in time not
8350s	only did blue team start playing a lot
8352s	more defensively but they started to
8353s	play a lot more coordinated we see them
8355s	stick together a lot more we see Finn
8357s	take a little bit more of a defensive
8358s	role and start protecting the rain dog a
8361s	lot more just because of those
8362s	percentages and because of that final
8364s	stock that type of awareness coming out
8366s	from tribe and panics inside of the
8368s	situation I think ultimately pulled them
8370s	out on top and I really appreciate it
8372s	eating it truthfully I was not expecting
8374s	that especially since previously Phantom
8376s	and M shim have been performing so well
8378s	by the first round of every single match
8380s	they played with the exception of the
8381s	one where they're tossed into losers
8384s	Phantom coming out and getting called
8386s	out by Rain Dogs up air was such a
8390s	strong ladder combo sending them all the
8393s	way to the top vertically and the second
8395s	that happened Finn was like okay I got
8398s	you I got the up attack here on the
8400s	ground managed to secure that win that
8402s	if there was a roller coaster match that
8404s	we've seen today that was probably the
8405s	most Looney Tunes one that I've seen
8407s	literally just kind of just playing this
8409s	tug of war this push and pull type of
8411s	game that's exactly what that was
8412s	because I had no idea I was on the edge
8414s	of my seat wondering who was going to
8415s	take away that first game and the first
8417s	game is so important Sharpie because
8419s	having that lead gives you counterpick
8421s	Advantage being able to not you always
8423s	have more counterpigs in your opponent's
8425s	teams especially near the end it's
8426s	always going to be a strong start for
8428s	sure and we've talked about it at length
8430s	we are actually seeing uh that looks
8433s	like a strap that looks like a stripe
8434s	locked in right there for Phantom very
8437s	interesting counter pick now I I know uh
8439s	stripe is one of the newer characters
8440s	inside of the game I want to give a very
8441s	brief uh introduction to strike to those
8444s	of you who may not have necessarily
8445s	known who this character is this
8447s	character actually comes from Gremlins 2
8449s	which is old 80s franchise uh and
8451s	they're actually considered an assassin
8453s	by trade now uh the Gremlins has a
8456s	plethora of different characters and
8458s	stripe is a really really good character
8459s	it's basically what happens after you
8460s	feed a gremlin after midnight when it
8462s	turns into stripe and he's uh just a
8465s	plethora of Mischief basically he has
8468s	not only a small gun he has a tricycle
8471s	that he can use to kind of knock you off
8472s	the stage but he also has
8474s	um a a stage control item that is kind
8478s	of like I believe it's like a buzz saw
8479s	basically which makes it so that you
8482s	cannot come back down into the ground or
8484s	basically you have to worry about your
8485s	knockout game he's very very good at
8487s	securing Knockouts as well because of
8489s	that gun that gun has an auto tracker
8491s	that can very easily remove that final
8494s	recovery for you so blue team definitely
8495s	has to watch out of type of situations
8497s	maybe not as much as Superman as they
8499s	did against Superman but definitely they
8501s	still need to be careful going into the
8502s	very next time yeah he's also uh running
8505s	the unique perk that allows him to be
8507s	able to transfer his debuffs to his
8509s	opponents if he latches onto them which
8510s	is so yeah we've been seeing a lot right
8512s	like all these debuffs are getting from
8513s	rain dog alone that's what's making it
8515s	actually a pretty strong counter pick
8516s	alone on top of that being able to play
8518s	The Rush down maybe he felt like he
8519s	couldn't keep up with Superman on top so
8521s	being as faster mobile characters will
8523s	be able to play the long projectile long
8525s	game can help them out tremendously so
8527s	we'll see how Phantom Stripes gonna be
8528s	able to play out here gets The Gunshot
8530s	has two more shots on top of that
8531s	couldn't get the KO on unfortunately
8532s	still sitting at 151 gets called out by
8535s	the side air and now bringing this to a
8536s	one-point lead in favor of red team and
8538s	that's exactly what I was talking about
8539s	right there those shots actually took
8541s	away all of rain dog's recovery Arya
8543s	reading on to that probably wasn't able
8544s	to go in an air and meet rain dog but as
8547s	soon as rain dog did come back to this
8548s	place to recover those uh recoveries
8551s	specifically Arya was able to meet them
8553s	with a beautiful sair to go ahead and
8555s	finish off that very first knockout and
8557s	I think that's what a lot of what you
8558s	can expect when you're going into a
8559s	striped magic you have to be careful the
8561s	minute you leave stage this double
8563s	assassin's team is no joke and they have
8565s	to be very respectful
8567s	yeah just being able to come out there
8569s	and just rush down your opponents as
8570s	fast as possible becomes a little bit
8572s	more difficult right because you're
8573s	noticing that Trump is having a little
8575s	bit of difficulty dealing with this uh
8576s	pesky stripe that's just constantly on I
8579s	feel like stripe is the Phantom is just
8581s	constantly locking down trap not
8582s	allowing him to play the game and he
8584s	wants to that's why you have to fight
8585s	against supports right that long tether
8586s	That's Not Gonna Save ring dog it's
8588s	supposed to say Vin but if he's gonna
8590s	get caught by it he's gonna be the one
8591s	sitting down to the blast so now you see
8592s	red team with a pretty strong lead yeah
8595s	red team is absolutely benefiting from
8597s	that counter pick on strike right now
8599s	we're noticing all the damage going out
8601s	on strike which I think is exactly what
8603s	red team wants here you see Arya
8605s	securing a lot of these knockout
8606s	situations it almost appears as those
8608s	stripers are just kind of the reason why
8610s	arya's able to knock you out not
8612s	necessarily the causality of it and I
8615s	think that misdirection is securing a
8617s	lot of opportunities to already come and
8619s	clean that up and put them back on the
8621s	board right now 1-1 now it's really
8623s	interesting that this happened Oscar I'm
8624s	going to let you walk us through the
8625s	replays and then we'll get into that
8626s	very last match
8627s	yeah I mean Phantom and mitsuki
8630s	obviously the stripe pick gonna be able
8633s	to come out in dividends for this not
8635s	allowing trab to play the game
8637s	whatsoever I feel like just locking down
8639s	rain dog is what helped them secure that
8642s	win that was something I felt like uh
8643s	Phantom Superman actually struggled a
8645s	little bit with right being able to lock
8647s	him down you notice every single one of
8648s	these replays it's always about them
8649s	chasing after rain dog not allowing rain
8651s	dog to set up shop because what Rain
8653s	Dogs want to do is set up shop from a
8655s	very long distance through our
8656s	projectiles throughout the firewalls get
8658s	the tethers be able to save the
8659s	teammates but when you have two
8660s	assassins on you constantly when do you
8662s	start when do you start to set it up how
8664s	can you Zone your opponents when they're
8665s	just constantly on you that was
8667s	something that Superman struggled with
8668s	and that stripe is very well equipped to
8670s	deal with so this counter pick is
8671s	actually working out extremely well for
8673s	red team now I'm starting to understand
8676s	why Phantom and imshin are such a threat
8678s	inside of this topic even on the lower
8681s	side of bracket you look at the
8682s	adaptation that they have you look at
8684s	the thought behind some of their counter
8686s	picks for not only characters but stay
8687s	ages and you start to really understand
8689s	why they've been able to maintain this
8691s	loan their adaptation is absolutely
8694s	insane it's beautiful to see inside of
8697s	action and it's even more exciting to
8699s	look at inside of hindsight here because
8701s	you watch all of these very very
8703s	dedicated opportunities that they take
8705s	to not only uh really punish their
8708s	opponents for their missteps and
8709s	misgivings but also create opportunities
8711s	for their for their opponents to make
8713s	decisions where they already know what
8715s	the outcome of those decisions are going
8716s	to be that is the level of play I'm
8718s	always excited to see inside of Aussie
8719s	and I'm so incredibly excited to go into
8721s	this game three here
8722s	yeah game number three tied up series
8725s	gonna see how this is gonna be able to
8727s	play out for the rest of it because
8729s	right now I think the difficult Choice
8732s	currently is how to deal with that pesky
8734s	stripe bro you fed him after midnight
8736s	and now you're paying the consequences
8738s	what can we do here sky Arena no
8741s	platforms that's gonna allow uh travio
8744s	to have a bigger Open Stage defensive
8746s	less platforms for him to be able to
8747s	land with the most platforms be able to
8749s	put the gem on but honestly he didn't
8751s	have enough time to do that I was
8753s	special anyways look at this Chase off
8754s	stage 31 damage off of just pushing him
8757s	off that could have been a potential KO
8758s	if it wasn't for phonics to come in and
8760s	try to like assist his teammate in some
8762s	way there is so much damage being traded
8764s	right now and ultimately I want to say
8766s	that it almost looks as though it's not
8768s	necessarily in Bluetooth favor because
8769s	they are actively being pushed inside of
8771s	a situation where there are inside of
8772s	the air is that a previous matchup look
8774s	at that very first knockout right there
8775s	that is the red team's win condition
8777s	right now they want you inside of the
8779s	air very good trade right there for them
8781s	today ultimately what I'm saying the red
8783s	team wants you inside the air the red
8785s	team wants you to use all of your
8786s	recoveries to safely recover back onto
8789s	the stage that is their win condition
8790s	and every single time that it happens
8792s	we're looking at a very nice follow-up
8794s	there by Blue Team who is now two stocks
8796s	out over red team's one song
8800s	yeah already doing a fantastic job look
8802s	at this Chase coming up from panics just
8804s	trying to allow him to be able to play
8805s	aggressive as possible especially that
8806s	tether is active that allows phonics to
8808s	go as aggressive and not fear death
8810s	right because if you go off stage you
8812s	know that rain dog is there to help
8814s	bring you back down to Earth around you
8816s	a little bit right he's grounded charged
8817s	up attacks also getting a big Ko's here
8820s	trying to get a lot of knockback against
8821s	their opponents they're going to try to
8823s	kind of chill back try to put up these
8825s	gems they're not going to be able to get
8826s	the opportunity look at Reggie and chase
8827s	after him goes for the shots then
8828s	they're still active not gonna be able
8829s	to try to pull go for that pull just yet
8831s	throwing out the projectiles to get them
8832s	back on stage using the Wall Street
8834s	cover gets called by another side air
8835s	they're in a bad spot right now both
8837s	blue team offstage trying to get back on
8839s	gets called up by the up there
8840s	immediately the tether is like not
8841s	having any of those comboses
8845s	gonna be able to give them that lead one
8847s	KO away from solidifying themselves this
8850s	game win you know it's really
8852s	interesting as mobile as the red team is
8854s	I'm not necessarily them be able to
8856s	secure those Knockouts right now it
8858s	almost feels as though for me very very
8860s	good there very good but now stripe has
8862s	to be incredibly careful right now
8863s	because he is literally only one up air
8866s	away from this rain dog or one down air
8869s	away from the spin of possibly meeting
8871s	his own maker
8873s	yeah
8874s	oh unfortunately banto musler got called
8877s	out midair when he used some of his
8879s	resources and just kind of fell down to
8880s	the Blast Zone in that situation you
8883s	want to make sure that when you're the
8884s	person with the high damage you want to
8885s	stay in the background this part by the
8887s	way this KO was super unfortunate
8888s	because when panics got ko'd you saw
8891s	trab try to get that tether but it just
8894s	barely missed that would have secured he
8896s	could have easily pulled pawnex in but
8897s	it's okay they got the W in the end I
8899s	guess that's what matters here in this
8900s	tournament phonics and trab taken the
8902s	2-1 lead to try to secure themselves a
8904s	win and another chance at this set I
8908s	really want to shout out trop here
8909s	because every single time I'm seeing
8911s	their rain dog move incredibly clean
8914s	inside of every single one of these
8915s	matchups inside the very last match
8917s	obviously we saw a lot of focus on rain
8919s	dog and I think this match was
8920s	absolutely no exception whatsoever there
8922s	were several times that both members of
8923s	The Blue Team were up inside of the air
8925s	very very prone and ultimately what kept
8927s	them safe there was there ever uh ever
8929s	vessence basically I want to say like
8931s	aerial threat when it came to Arya and
8936s	stripes and coming they they stripe and
8939s	Arya were a little bit scared to
8940s	approach because of the flame incoming
8943s	projectile game because Finn was right
8945s	there to very possibly backpack them all
8947s	the way up into the blast zone up up and
8949s	away so I think that that type of
8951s	coordination kept them alive a lot
8952s	longer than we usually expected to see
8954s	especially coming out of that previous
8956s	match and now as we're sitting here with
8958s	the blue team up 2-1 over the red team I
8961s	can't help but think what adaptations do
8963s	you expect to see from Phantom and M
8964s	shim going into this very next match
8967s	uh not much in my opinion I think it's
8969s	good I think their game plan was working
8971s	they just couldn't get those early chaos
8974s	there's so many times we saw a red team
8976s	actually push blue team towards the
8978s	corner of the blast zone at very low
8980s	damage but they just couldn't find their
8982s	Mark with trying to like just get those
8984s	Kos off really early on they couldn't
8986s	finish the job they're really good at
8988s	building it up but they just could never
8989s	finish it and I could see them going
8992s	back to that stage I think it's a pretty
8993s	okay stage for them to run back to
8995s	granted it was blue team's counter pick
8997s	so I have to wait and see how they're
8998s	gonna be able to play out here what I
8999s	want to see a lot more of is a little
9002s	bit more patient play coming out from
9004s	Phantom which granted I know that's hard
9006s	to do when you're playing the likes of
9008s	stripe who has such great aerial
9010s	Mobility wants to go in there shut down
9012s	rain dog but there was actually an
9013s	opportunity there where like mitsubkin
9016s	was at 10 20 damage could have easily
9018s	played the stock tank there for the last
9020s	bit of that game but Phantom was like in
9022s	the midst of the with them trying to get
9024s	work going and unfortunately he was
9026s	getting so zany that he actually used up
9028s	all of his jumps and a lot of his
9030s	resources that when he got called out he
9031s	just didn't know how to get back onto
9032s	the stage and just fell to his blast
9034s	zone so maybe a little bit more patient
9036s	play from Phantom I don't know if that
9037s	means sticking with the stripe or going
9038s	back to soups but I think stripe is the
9041s	answer in my opinion I think he's just
9042s	stick with it I'm inclined to agree with
9044s	you I actually also think that the stage
9046s	pick uh was very beneficial obviously to
9049s	the red team there I do agree with the
9051s	stripe with staying on stripe as a very
9053s	strong character Choice here
9055s	um one of the things that I was kind of
9056s	also very interested by uh was fnatic's
9059s	play I'm sorry a Phantom's play there
9062s	because what we saw previously is I have
9064s	both the very first match and inside of
9065s	previous matches inside of this top
9066s	eight with Phantom is that we saw a very
9069s	aggressive very very like floaty
9071s	Superman character and knowing that
9073s	stripe doesn't necessarily have the stay
9075s	tools to stay as floaty is much more of
9078s	a kind of like stick Like Glue character
9080s	uh really beat only by Arya inside of
9083s	that sticking capacity uh you can't play
9086s	them the same way are we seeing do you
9088s	possibly think that we're seeing a
9089s	little bit of disconnection here a
9091s	little bit of like characteritis where
9092s	you know it takes a couple of games for
9094s	you to adapt and quickly remember that
9096s	you're not necessarily you don't
9096s	necessarily have the same toolkit as you
9098s	did previously
9099s	I don't think so I I I think it's just
9102s	he's adapting to a new character and you
9106s	got to remember that stripe is two weeks
9108s	old so no one's gonna be a master of
9111s	this character just yet so to pull him
9112s	out here even no matter how good he is
9114s	is always going to be a gamble in the
9116s	tournament when the character is just
9117s	brand new because you know you're
9119s	Superman probably been playing Superman
9120s	since like the alpha the beta maybe even
9123s	the tech test like this character has
9125s	been out for an extremely long time in
9126s	comparison so you definitely have more
9128s	Mastery over him so at the end of the
9130s	day it could be something like that but
9132s	I he's working it out he's making it
9134s	work he's got to get these Rush downs we
9136s	gotta get these early chaos if red team
9137s	wants to bring this home they gotta
9139s	secure these early chaos and keep trough
9141s	from being able to play the game that he
9142s	wants to do let's jump into game four
9144s	for sure very very smart choice I
9147s	Believe by going to trophy's edge here
9148s	that is 100 and arya's benefits as we've
9152s	seen inside of previous sets inside of
9153s	this tournament those moving platforms
9155s	only help really the Assassins recover
9157s	and don't necessarily give as many
9159s	opportunities characters like raindog to
9161s	have a safe recovery and removing a lot
9163s	of recovery options and I think that's
9165s	instrumental for the red team to come
9166s	out on top here we're seeing a lot of
9168s	damage going down on the red team but
9170s	even more being traded onto the blue
9172s	side we have rain dog who sits at 68
9175s	Finn who's sitting at 67 now and those
9177s	percentages are very quickly climbing on
9179s	the red team sign already at 101 and uh
9182s	we have the stripe at five right now
9185s	that rain dog side we're just passively
9187s	adding damage over time to both
9189s	characters
9190s	yeah it's a very strong tool to just
9192s	have in your kit here's the kind of push
9194s	I'm talking about right Phantom securing
9197s	that stock it might not have been
9198s	against rain dog but that was because
9199s	you saw that Mexican was on the rain dog
9202s	instead gets the follow-up The Gunshot
9204s	could have potentially said I don't know
9205s	that could have potentially been a KO
9207s	but the gunshot might have slowed it
9208s	down and sent the angle a little bit
9210s	longer I'm not I cannot call that I'm
9211s	not sure but that's not gonna be able to
9214s	survive that down are gonna be able to
9215s	send it off flying towards the top of
9216s	the Blaster red team with a slightly
9218s	took the Phantom try to stay light for
9219s	as long as possible 145 damage let's see
9222s	if they can just try to hang in there
9223s	and not explode
9226s	blue team just kind of taking the
9228s	approach of we don't need to secure that
9229s	knockout right now just having the 2V1
9231s	situation is enough and getting that
9233s	damage on when they can opting to go
9235s	with the Bird in Hand instead of the
9236s	bird and Bush I think is kind of making
9238s	them a real Force right now inside of
9240s	this possible final game three if they
9242s	win it
9243s	yeah you're gonna notice again they're
9245s	just trying to play this aggressive game
9247s	hitting him with the melee attacks
9249s	getting the gunshots afterwards Arya has
9251s	to stay a little bit longer mitsukin at
9253s	126 damage under looking pretty bleak
9256s	right now hold on a second gets a second
9258s	follow-up that was such a sick again
9260s	being able to send them all the way to
9262s	the Flying once the downer gets
9263s	challenged by the up air be able to
9265s	fight to Live Another Day Trump instead
9267s	of shop with that grenade to call it yet
9268s	another by a double side
9270s	now we're sitting in here at match point
9272s	now they just gotta take out that man
9274s	unfortunately that's gonna be already
9275s	going down match point and both players
9276s	favors again has to be able to go up
9279s	there and help it out Phantom he's in a
9281s	strong spot he's got to get back in
9282s	there throwing up the bus stop here it
9284s	comes melee attacks the Lord as they're
9285s	trying to even it up bit by bit I'm
9288s	really interested to see how that stripe
9290s	is going to go ahead and recover right
9290s	now because he is most likely to go
9292s	ahead and be that final kale just like
9293s	we saw on the very inside like the very
9295s	last set of this and so ultimately
9297s	looking at Arya trying to wrap up that
9298s	damage does go ahead yet again rain dog
9301s	coming down saying Bow Chicka Wow Wow
9303s	gets that final knockout securing the
9306s	win 3-1 for Traub and
9310s	she's going to flip her Biz doing it
9312s	with style showing that hey you know
9315s	what we're not gonna go O2 here in Top
9317s	bait we're not getting that fifth place
9319s	finish we're gonna move on to lose our
9320s	semis they probably have some more
9321s	matches they want to put out there
9322s	congratulations to Phantom and M Shin
9324s	for being able to make it all the way to
9326s	fifth place guaranteeing them a slot
9328s	there in the finals two weeks from now
9330s	by the way I honestly can't even believe
9332s	that finals are happening this soon
9334s	Sharpie we're already coming near the
9336s	end of our circuit dude after today it's
9338s	just n a West and East number two and
9340s	then that's it finals rap for that and
9343s	you know I just want to say what a
9344s	fantastic showing from all of the
9345s	players on both Nae na West and both
9349s	sides of EU like EU is large you know
9352s	and so seeing this level of talent
9354s	exists throughout the entirety of that
9356s	continent is very very powerful to see
9359s	especially when you have adaptation like
9361s	this uh I just want to point out that
9364s	inside of that previous matchup Phantom
9366s	and M Shin were going into that were my
9369s	favorites to win this so seeing them be
9372s	shut down by a team coming out here on
9375s	from the previous winner side inside of
9376s	top eight shows that there's some real
9378s	talent inside of this match nobody
9381s	should sleep on anybody as you said
9383s	previously inside of this bracket this
9385s	game requires you to be alert at all
9387s	times the minute that you lose that
9389s	attention is when you lose the game
9391s	yeah no doubt in my mind we're gonna
9394s	take a trip back over to the upper side
9396s	of bracket by the way winners finals
9398s	viren and rip facing up against two
9401s	Senpai and MJ now when we look at our
9403s	last four teams that are alive still in
9405s	this bracket it's the four teams that
9407s	started on Winner's side winter semis so
9409s	not too big of a surprise here but this
9412s	is the last time that people are gonna
9413s	be able to play with a little bit of a
9414s	safety net right loser that's going to
9416s	be sent down to losers finals while the
9418s	winner gets to move on into Grand so
9420s	there's a lot at stake here you want to
9421s	get guarantee yourself that additional
9423s	safety net on top of that we're gonna
9425s	jump into here Vernon RIP by the way
9427s	coming from London UK it's gonna be Jake
9429s	and Arya two sent by an MJ coming over
9433s	and pulling the Netherlands respectively
9435s	Rock and then Arya and Batman so if you
9437s	if you if you haven't seen enough Arya
9439s	we got some more Arya here for you today
9441s	here we go Arya is a very popular pick
9444s	and we've seen all throughout top eight
9446s	on all regions truthfully and it makes a
9449s	lot of sense arya's easily able to stick
9451s	to her opponent as you can see right
9454s	here immediately we have two Senpai
9456s	sticking to both characters applying
9458s	those weakened meaning that Batman's
9460s	able to come back and put that smoke
9462s	bomb down to get even more Stacks
9466s	whoa that's huge
9469s	that's huge
9479s	and just like denying anyone from going
9482s	up there you don't want to be on the top
9483s	of the screen against a team like this
9485s	it's a very scary same thing to them
9487s	though
9494s	[Music]
9498s	currently on their final stop away from
9501s	possibly winning his very first match
9502s	right now and as you know establishing
9504s	dominance on this very first match great
9506s	Dodge there by that Arya for that
9507s	batteries ultimately has no more aerial
9509s	Dodges too uh red Arya does come through
9511s	immediately
9513s	that Jake and then comes to answer
9515s	before that Batman really appreciate it
9518s	really appreciating the follow-up here
9520s	by Blue teams Arya V rip doing amazing
9524s	Autumn blue Arya this game Austin
9528s	yesterday
9531s	as well
9534s	uh like the do but at the end of the day
9536s	every single start what what started the
9539s	combo Sharpie it was up special from
9542s	Jake every single KO started with
9545s	someone getting caught by that it's such
9547s	a strong it's a unique perk how the
9549s	unique perk works is when you use that
9551s	stretchy body if you get touched by the
9553s	bottom of it you get sent flying up
9555s	vertically from it right there again and
9557s	you get put in such a bad position that
9558s	you're just like combo food for whether
9560s	you're up there or your partner's up
9562s	there so all four Kos were very early on
9566s	and is because they were just up at the
9568s	top so how their game plan is working
9570s	out which I am actually loving right now
9572s	from viren and rip is the game plan is
9575s	to have rip be it kind of near the
9576s	bottom of the blast and try to send
9578s	someone top while viren kind of chills
9580s	on those platforms which gives them a
9582s	little bit of an edge to try to jump up
9583s	near the top to try to get those up
9585s	special and get those sneaky early kills
9587s	because if anyone just goes flying into
9588s	it or if they jump after them they're
9590s	done for us so for a counter pick I
9593s	definitely expect like a flash stage no
9594s	platforms allowed
9596s	you know and that was actually going to
9597s	be my very next chance do you my very
9599s	next question to you do you think
9600s	there's a chance and I have to ask you
9603s	Aussie as a friend do you think there's
9605s	a chance that we see Scooby's haunted
9607s	mansion inside of it no absolutely not
9609s	get that out of your brain right now
9611s	Sharpie I'm going to shut this down you
9612s	are not going to be seeing Scooby's
9613s	Mansion I saw it once once this entire
9616s	circuit uh the unfortunate truth of the
9619s	matter is that a lot of top players just
9621s	don't like playing there and you know
9623s	there's reasons for them right you have
9625s	like the uh little cranks at the top of
9627s	the stages if you hit those it brings
9629s	down the stage you have walls you have
9631s	the weird ceiling that makes it so like
9632s	if you go towards the middle it uh you
9635s	know you're near the middle of that
9636s	stage it's like there's a little hole so
9637s	it allows for a little very zany
9639s	mechanics to have and a lot of
9641s	competitive players feel like it's just
9643s	a little bit too much so they don't want
9644s	to deal with all that which is why I
9646s	think a lot of them are very excited for
9648s	when Scooby's Mansion ruthless starts to
9650s	become legal because as of today
9652s	Scooby's mentioned ruthless is not
9654s	allowed because it's too new but it was
9656s	we always have to give like a little bit
9657s	of a grace period whenever there's a new
9659s	character a new stage a new mechanic in
9660s	general just like let people like flesh
9662s	it out a little bit before we bring it
9663s	into a tournament format so it might be
9665s	legal on later on in this circuit but
9667s	for now we just got to deal with what we
9669s	have left here another stage That You
9670s	Don't See really often is tree fort and
9672s	that's another stage why you don't see a
9673s	lot in from top level players is because
9676s	of the nature of the stage right there's
9678s	three platforms on it it feels very
9680s	claustrophobic people can explode at
9682s	zero damage if they could Spike because
9683s	the bottom of the blast zone is so close
9685s	to the bottom of the stage so like it
9688s	creates a lot of volatile moments and
9690s	the last thing competitive players is
9692s	once they don't want those volatile
9693s	moments they want to be able to like
9695s	play and feel a little bit more
9696s	comfortable so people counter picking
9698s	those stages are usually people are like
9700s	I don't think we can beat this team so
9701s	let's try something zany and if that
9703s	ever is on the table the opponent's team
9705s	is just gonna ban the stage
9708s	that's my thoughts anyways no thank you
9710s	for crushing my dreams Aussie I
9712s	appreciate you no it's okay
9714s	I got you if you ever like want to feel
9718s	optimistic I'll crush your dreams right
9719s	in front of you bro
9723s	fantastic I believe it's game two right
9726s	now we are going back over to Sky Arenas
9728s	we are getting diarrhea right now look
9730s	at this very commanding start yet
9732s	another very early knockdown literally
9735s	only 10 seconds on the match and blue
9737s	team has already secured themselves to
9739s	stop against the red team
9741s	they are just playing out of their minds
9745s	right now seriously like I I was
9748s	actually eyeing their bracket
9749s	performance earlier on Vernon
9751s	specifically and they've only lost one
9753s	game this entire tournament all of
9756s	yesterday they only dropped one game to
9757s	Gigi Gucci in effect and after that it's
9760s	just been three or three O's two o's two
9762s	o's so like and we're seeing why we're
9764s	seeing why this is happening this team
9765s	composition is working out in incredibly
9767s	well for them very very strong
9770s	commanding start here and you're
9771s	noticing that red team's not keeping the
9774s	slouching down obviously they're trying
9775s	to go inside a very aggressive
9776s	situations where they're able to they're
9778s	just slightly coming out short when they
9780s	need to secure those final Knockouts
9782s	into the Blast Zone look at that that's
9783s	the third time that Jake or Arya has
9786s	been blasted into the blast zone and
9787s	come out with their life still in fact
9791s	I managed to finally get that first
9793s	point speaking up couldn't live for that
9795s	long and I don't know I've seen this
9797s	time and again whenever you see a
9799s	three-point to one point lead it is I I
9802s	you usually never see the one point team
9804s	take that lead like it's very rare
9806s	because you just suck in a really bad
9807s	spot two to three a little bit more than
9809s	Google but still not in the greatest in
9812s	spots so it's up for red team trying to
9813s	get something really good get something
9815s	really quick and try to even up this
9817s	game hold on a second this could be the
9819s	moment I'm talking about I mean they
9820s	might just be making me eat my eat my
9822s	socks bro hold on a sec now I'm really
9825s	appreciating the bat bombs that I'm
9827s	seeing coming out that recovery was just
9829s	enough time to allow him to go ahead and
9831s	support his own Aria inside of these
9833s	instances but what I'm also worried
9835s	about right now is Jake just taking more
9838s	of a little bit like passive role
9840s	waiting to get those others especially
9842s	what we're talking about we're making
9843s	him clutch inside of these situations
9845s	I'm very concerned right now for red
9848s	team safety effortless yeah I would be
9851s	too you're gonna notice also viren with
9854s	the blue team gonna be trying to like
9855s	chill near the top of the Blaster not
9857s	only to help him survive but you're
9859s	being able to sneak out ring outs like
9861s	that like that was the first time we saw
9863s	Veron to kind of be a little bit
9864s	aggressive when they were like trying to
9866s	play the stock tank at the end and it
9867s	was from such a safety a safe amount of
9870s	positioning right Jake cider allows them
9873s	to be able to use their like make an
9875s	angle It Up Down to the side they can
9877s	react to where their opponent's going
9878s	and then once they swing it out it's
9880s	such a big open hitbox so you just have
9882s	to be like be able to respect it I'm
9885s	somewhat surprised at the way that
9888s	Tucson to Senpai and MJ are performing
9890s	here mostly because previously inside of
9892s	their match with pleb and Timmy it was
9895s	actually one of the only three twos that
9896s	we've seen inside of top eight thus far
9898s	and so uh knowing that it was already so
9901s	close with them and watching it not
9902s	necessarily be like a 1v1 trade here but
9905s	almost like a shutout when it comes to
9907s	like the first part of the momentum
9908s	inside of every single one of these
9909s	matches leaves me very concerned right
9911s	now especially since viren and Fripp are
9913s	basically 2-0 currently inside of this
9915s	Set uh do you think there's anything
9917s	that two Senpai and MJ can do to kind of
9919s	change the way the momentum is moving
9921s	forward we're seeing a lot of very early
9922s	Knockouts is there anything that Arya
9924s	and Batman can do to kind of prevent the
9926s	way that that's happening
9929s	um I feel like the last game they
9930s	adapted really well compared to the
9932s	first game because if you ask me that
9933s	question after game number one it would
9935s	be stop chasing after uh Jake near the
9937s	top of the blast zone because all those
9939s	early kales are going up there but
9941s	there's just a lot of times when you'll
9942s	notice that verbs Jake jumps up to the
9945s	top of the blast zone and is just kind
9946s	of like waiting up there you know
9948s	waiting for that right moment for them
9950s	to go flying up there from our Australia
9952s	hit or if they just jump after the chase
9954s	after them kind of like goading them
9955s	into chasing them that's what Jake wants
9958s	so I don't want them to I don't want to
9959s	see them chase after Jake when they're
9961s	near the top of the blast zone instead
9962s	just do like a dog pile 2V1 against the
9965s	enemy Arya or enemy uh Arya instead you
9967s	know so I think that's what we got to
9969s	see is kind of just like let Jake
9971s	understand that Jake is an advantage
9973s	even though every other character in the
9975s	game would probably be a disadvantage in
9976s	that spot they're an advantage you just
9978s	gotta accept that and just try to force
9980s	the 2V1 against Arya instead yeah I I
9983s	also want to get your thoughts
9984s	specifically on something that we saw
9986s	happen with viren and rip several times
9987s	inside of that previous match there they
9989s	were knocked up into the air several
9992s	times into the blast zone several times
9994s	by two Senpai and mji but that didn't
9996s	result inside of a knockout what do you
9998s	think could change perk wise or possibly
10000s	stage Wise from happening are we looking
10002s	at possibly going over to trophy's edge
10004s	with lower ceilings
10006s	uh so I feel like they pick sky Arena
10009s	specifically to avoid that scenario
10011s	because on the first stage it was sky
10013s	Arena they exploded because of Jake so I
10015s	feel like sky Arena is the stage to pick
10017s	or like cromulons or something like that
10019s	any big Open Stage that's exactly what
10021s	we're gonna do yes I agree with this
10022s	counterfeit you want that big ceiling
10024s	even though you're not gonna be able to
10025s	get your early Tails you're not going to
10027s	be getting caught by early chaos from
10028s	Jake it's gonna be harder for Jake to
10029s	set up shop which is why we didn't see
10031s	it as much game number two compared to
10033s	game number one understandable really
10035s	really good strong start so far by the
10037s	red team racking up a lot of damage on
10040s	Blue Team here and trying to to stay
10041s	grounded for the most part trying to
10043s	stay close to the center of the stage
10044s	and we're seeing them not go up as far
10047s	into the air out of respect for Jake
10049s	just like you mentioned previously
10051s	yeah and your nose is battering being a
10054s	pile on top of them good counter action
10056s	I like that that's the time for MJ to
10058s	turn on the clock is when viren is
10061s	preoccupied that's when you chase after
10063s	them good call out from that and I did
10066s	see the Jake come down immediately with
10069s	that taxi trying to keep that pressure
10070s	off of them so it didn't result as I
10073s	have a double knockout very good
10073s	awareness by both oh okay um and as we
10077s	move further into this match we do see
10079s	that red knockout stock goes up for blue
10081s	team and ultimately that up does not
10084s	result in a knockout for the Batman
10086s	who's sitting still at 108 Jake's
10088s	sitting at 103 and we have REO at five
10091s	stacks of weakness that bomb going off
10093s	blue team is appearing yet another stack
10097s	I do want to point out that if you look
10099s	at the pause the oh my God just call it
10101s	by the top if you look at the the
10103s	network stream of the top right that is
10104s	the spectator's cam we are from a
10106s	different country viewing it so if you
10108s	ever see some like waney zany like
10109s	networking issues it's because it's The
10111s	Spectator view I think the players have
10113s	a pretty solid connection I've heard
10114s	really good things about the connections
10115s	over in Europe so it's pretty it's
10117s	primarily a spectator thing it's
10119s	happening sir don't worry too much about
10121s	that
10128s	but it's sitting right now at 112. Arya
10131s	sitting at 70 and they're both kind of
10134s	in danger right now of being that final
10136s	knockout Batman does of course get
10138s	knocked out there and both teams are
10139s	only one knockout away Blue Team One
10142s	knockout away from moving forward on the
10143s	winner side it's in the grand finals and
10145s	Red Team One not got away from some Fury
10147s	themselves another win inside of the set
10150s	oh calls out the down special from viren
10155s	that's a really tough thing to chase
10156s	after with uh as Jake right when you're
10159s	off the top of the blast zone and you go
10161s	for the down special like that's a
10163s	really hard hitboxer challenge like
10165s	right there for instance you have to
10166s	like time it out just right space it out
10168s	just right before that uppercut comes
10170s	into play and be able to secure that
10172s	ring out so good stuff from MJ for
10174s	spacing that out just right and finally
10176s	showing some signs of life in this set
10178s	I'm actually very very happy by the way
10182s	that MJ has been not only moving forward
10183s	but also adapting to some of the
10185s	situations that they're put inside of
10186s	you watched MJ kind of stay on the
10189s	ground stay towards the center of mass
10190s	of the stage a lot more as for previous
10192s	matches you saw MJ kind of floating out
10195s	of uh off the edges of the match kind of
10198s	playing more of an aerial game and and
10200s	this one he's staying a lot lighter he's
10202s	staying uh he's staying a lot closer to
10204s	the ground a lot a lot a lot lower down
10206s	on the match and I think that ultimately
10208s	uh helped them come out on top inside of
10210s	that set as well so as they move forward
10212s	inside of this they do need two more
10214s	wins to move into Grand finals but this
10217s	is an opportunity for them to make sure
10218s	that they don't have to worry about
10220s	playing it back through the loser side
10222s	of this match
10223s	um Aussie are we looking at any changes
10226s	inside of stage here are we looking at
10227s	any character swaps as we go into this
10229s	very next match right now
10231s	no I don't think so I think the
10233s	characters are going to stay exactly the
10235s	same uh stage might go back to trophy's
10237s	Edge but it depends on what they're
10239s	banning so again they get a lot of
10241s	mileage off of the top of the blast zone
10243s	to manage to get any sort of chaos near
10245s	the top that could help them out
10246s	tremendously but we just got to kind of
10249s	wait and see it's based off of who's
10251s	Banning woods and uh you're gonna also
10253s	notice by the way those perks that they
10255s	use triple jump has been a Mainstay on
10257s	every single team we've seen today the
10259s	reason triple jump is so good is because
10262s	it gives you that additional resource if
10263s	it's stacked so if both players on the
10266s	team are running triple jump at all
10268s	times they get three jumps instead of
10269s	two when you have six resources total
10271s	you have two Dodges two specials two
10274s	jumps with triple jump that gives you
10276s	that turns from six to seven because you
10277s	have three jumps instead of two it's
10279s	such a valuable resource that's insanely
10281s	noticeable for chasing up the top or for
10283s	when you're trying to recover from off
10284s	stage but now all of a sudden bat cave
10288s	this is the counterfeit stage this is
10289s	actually a pretty good stage from the
10291s	the counter pick too I could I could
10292s	sense that maybe blue team or sorry red
10294s	team bands trophies Edge like okay Bet
10296s	let's go to bat cave Instead This is
10298s	Gonna Be an incredibly volatile stage in
10300s	favor of blue team potential they're
10302s	gonna try to get those up specials ready
10303s	to go so I'm connected to the down
10304s	special instead gets the up air looking
10306s	for that oh the special on top of that
10307s	to be able to send him off to the top of
10309s	the blast zone as they're diving into
10310s	this beginning of this game four very
10313s	very smart counter pick stage here
10315s	especially for that Aria and uh that
10318s	Batman here um but I'm I'm somewhat
10321s	surprised mostly because if you counter
10323s	pick the stages that you get double
10324s	knocked out I know you're questioning
10326s	yourself I know you're thinking did we
10328s	really need to bring Bruce Wayne to his
10329s	own stage here did we really need to do
10331s	that was that really smart of us to do
10333s	you know but right now looking at Red
10335s	Team being at 100 right now
10338s	crazy crazy
10340s	moment there does ultimately get The
10343s	Knockout there on red teams Arya two SIM
10345s	fight he does go ahead and play with
10347s	that with a stock and right now not as
10349s	much attention being paid over MJ
10352s	two step I did a great job by the way of
10355s	being able to survive throwing up that
10356s	Dagger from offstage to get back on
10358s	there to put himself at a bad spot
10360s	speaking of bad spots it's looking very
10362s	Bleak for Blue Team all you need to do
10363s	is that one more Wing out and they can
10365s	turn this around but unfortunately Bruce
10367s	Wayne's not gonna allow it MJ jumps up
10369s	there gets the uppercut off the tops
10371s	like you bring me back to my bat family
10372s	again this is what happens game five
10374s	baby
10376s	who needs battles when you have Batman
10378s	I'm sorry I just I want to I always
10381s	think it's really interesting when any
10382s	whenever an Arya or a Batman get an
10385s	opportunity to go to Batcave because you
10387s	almost always see this exact thing
10389s	happen when you have two players who are
10392s	already so incredibly coordinated who
10395s	are able to be very very careful about
10397s	their movement in addition to their
10398s	coordination these are the results that
10400s	you get with an incredibly low ceiling
10402s	with something like this where you can
10404s	just go ahead and uppercut them all the
10405s	way out for a knockout and then I just
10408s	also want to say to Senpai and MJ have
10410s	personally been my top pick inside of
10413s	this bracket exclusively because of
10416s	their double top ending they they know
10418s	how to play to the people and the people
10420s	is me I am the Target demographic and I
10422s	appreciate your people
10425s	I I I literally I actually liked the bat
10431s	cave counterpick I think that was a
10433s	pretty solid pick for them especially
10434s	how with how game one went it looks like
10436s	they're trying to have lightning strike
10437s	twice without how that game one decided
10439s	to go in their favor the problem is is
10442s	this is the same type of Team like they
10443s	want the same thing both teams want Ko's
10447s	off the top it doesn't matter like who
10449s	is gonna be able to do it it's just who
10451s	does it first and who does it better
10452s	looks like we've got a little bit of a
10453s	swap here going off of the Calico cat
10455s	for uh cake swapping over to alien Jake
10458s	the true Forum coming out here let's see
10461s	how this is going to be able to play out
10462s	here for the game number five of winners
10464s	finals winner of this is gonna be in
10466s	such a good spot for the rest of the
10467s	bracket and losers has to go for a big
10470s	climb not only winning a set in losers
10472s	finals but having to take two sets of
10474s	the person who wins this so now this is
10477s	a very important game Jake is a family
10479s	man he has a wife and children at home
10481s	he has to go you know you don't got time
10484s	for these games so I think we're just
10485s	trying to see him get back to his true
10487s	forms go over to cromulons save
10493s	did we want did we watch the same show
10496s	cause Jake is a horrible father bro he's
10499s	always got time for games bro you know
10501s	him he's got that one episode he's about
10503s	the family and it goes off and does this
10504s	is this is totally in character look I
10507s	think I think we're seeing a rewrite of
10509s	the cannon right now because as we look
10511s	over it Batman who's at 69 almost
10514s	securing a double knockout but only
10516s	getting one knock out there on Arya uh
10519s	Jake coming back relatively clean onto
10521s	the stage not necessarily able to come
10523s	back yet until he hits that
10526s	65-58 really really clean so far by red
10529s	team doing a great job commanding the
10531s	momentum in their side so far take this
10533s	ding dong yeah just kind of just
10535s	having this significantly you can do
10537s	them very huge amounts of Wonders the
10539s	problem is they're both at high damage
10541s	so just if they can just find that Mark
10542s	unfortunately viren's having trouble
10544s	finding the the up special into the up
10546s	air gaming to work for in their favor
10548s	send them line with the downer the
10550s	skateboard combo coming in clutch the
10552s	third swing setting him flying towards
10554s	the blast zone we're gonna see how the
10556s	sound special is gonna be able to play
10556s	out on top of that MJ thing here at 137
10558s	goes for a second uppercut can't find
10560s	the mark on the Arya gets called out by
10562s	the official instead and now all of a
10564s	sudden the tables have turned so we seem
10565s	now in the lead look after that bat bomb
10567s	I could send you to the top
10569s	I'm somewhat surprised that that Aria
10571s	down air did not actually hit there but
10574s	I did see the Dodge come out and it
10576s	really looks like Jaden's just being
10577s	incredibly careful right now understands
10579s	that all eyes are on all of his seven
10581s	eyes right now and have to be very very
10583s	careful of the way he chooses to
10584s	approach it especially since red team's
10586s	looking to put him inside of both team
10587s	in one situation
10589s	yeah just trying to hang on for as long
10591s	as possible if you're in being the stock
10593s	tank serious thing here at 149th I stay
10595s	alive that was
10601s	in the head getting the KO off the top
10603s	incredible performance coming out from
10606s	MJ you'll see if you try to pull this
10607s	off one more time he just needs one more
10610s	uppercut against grip sitting at 82
10611s	damage can he find the Mark he's gonna
10614s	get called out this could be turn the
10615s	tables insanely fast look at them go
10618s	I'm really really rooting for red team
10621s	here right now they only need to secure
10624s	this right here and they've been playing
10625s	so well together very nice by Arya that
10628s	up air does finally cement it and look
10631s	at that look at that double Tandy can
10633s	you not how do you not root for a team
10635s	that does that consistently you know no
10637s	mutton pancakes someone did that against
10639s	me in match I be tilted but here on the
10642s	static cannot believe two sent by an MJ
10645s	bringing that back from the depths of
10646s	Despair bro bring it to a 3-2 victory
10648s	such a great recovery after that first
10651s	game too and they were just got
10653s	slobberknockered in that first 30
10654s	seconds bro like it was done and done so
10656s	so after that I was like whoa okay it
10658s	looks like Vernon rip got this on
10659s	lockdown but the adaptation especially
10662s	from MJ's uppercut positioning to avoid
10664s	right there that's what I was talking
10665s	about avoiding the sticky part and
10667s	hitting the head which is the vulnerable
10669s	part sitting him off to the top it helps
10671s	secure MJ and two senpai's spot in Grand
10676s	finals of the European open number two
10678s	they're guaranteed top two now now it's
10680s	interesting because if you go ahead and
10681s	take a look at this bracket you can see
10683s	exactly how we got where we are and
10686s	where we currently are inside of the
10687s	standing
10688s	this bracket has been uh I want to say
10691s	dubious but and truthful it's been a
10693s	plethora of skill inside of winners
10696s	Grand finals we now have two Senpai and
10700s	MJ who secured themselves on Winner's
10701s	side meaning that they only need three
10703s	victories there in order to win the
10705s	entire shebang over on the loser semis
10708s	finals we will have pleb and Timmy who
10711s	will be competing against Pontiac and
10712s	trap who will the winner of which will
10715s	go on to fight viren and rip who just
10718s	lost to two Senpai and MJ the winner of
10720s	that match will ultimately play two
10722s	Senpai nmj inside of grand finals and
10724s	will have to win a total of three times
10726s	in addition to another three inside of
10728s	grand finals reset to secure the
10730s	entirety of this open now looking at
10734s	this bracket so far Aussie we see so
10737s	much talent we see so many amazing story
10739s	lines that have happened that it's
10740s	gotten us to this far and I just want to
10742s	say what an incredible Display of
10745s	multiverses Power you know like moments
10748s	like this are already readily available
10750s	of course on an amazing Tournament level
10752s	directly here on twitch.tv multiverses
10755s	but I do want to remind all of our
10756s	viewers and listeners that you can
10758s	relive some of the hypest Moments by
10760s	going over to twitter.com mvs gaming and
10763s	following along to see even more
10766s	Competitive Gaming multiverses there uh
10768s	Austin I have to ask do you have a
10770s	favorite moment from this tournament
10772s	thus far
10773s	uh probably the game one of the last set
10775s	just the 4kos in 30 seconds it's I find
10779s	it hilarious like I'm just like wow that
10781s	actually happened that's amazing
10782s	fantastic good job and they still
10784s	couldn't take the set after that so
10786s	that's probably my favorite moment
10787s	honestly I just anytime like you just
10789s	see stocks flying and people just
10792s	falling down left and right it's always
10794s	a hilarious thing to watch so anything
10795s	that makes me giggle I guess is what's
10797s	something that I'm gonna be pretty
10798s	ecstatic about it really sets the stage
10801s	to kind of showcase even more uh amazing
10804s	unexpected play later on as I have the
10806s	bracket when you see it being played
10807s	that early you know inside of uh inside
10811s	of the tournament standard like this now
10813s	I do have to mention something as uh
10816s	before we get into this very next match
10817s	but one thing that I've noticed is that
10819s	we actually haven't seen two of my
10822s	favorite characters inside of this
10823s	tournament yet Steven Universe or Garnet
10826s	uh both characters that are very very
10828s	popular and general and general play but
10832s	sometimes aren't necessarily always seen
10833s	as side of competitive play at these
10835s	levels obviously inside of other side
10837s	inside of other tournaments we have seen
10839s	Steven Universe and we have seen Garnet
10841s	but I'd love to hear your thoughts on
10843s	exactly what makes Steven Universe so
10845s	difficult to utilize at a high level I
10847s	know that competitively what you're
10849s	looking at is uh he's one of the only
10850s	expert leveled characters inside of this
10852s	game he has a very very large uh
10855s	Advanced kit but it is relatively
10857s	difficult to weld especially in the heat
10859s	of ballot so we see a lot of people
10860s	moving over to Arya we see a lot of
10863s	people moving over to rain dog as a
10865s	different support and we're seeing a lot
10866s	of Morty do you have any thoughts about
10868s	specifically Steven Universe and uh when
10871s	we could possibly see him being used
10872s	against other characters
10875s	um it's just a character preference
10876s	thing I I legit think Steven's really
10878s	good at a top level
10879s	um I see a lot of Stevens kind of moving
10881s	away from him to play Morty instead
10883s	because
10884s	they kind of fill similar roles in terms
10887s	of being able to save their teammate
10888s	what Stephen can do is he puts out a
10890s	shield by holding neutral air Dodge and
10892s	allows three hits for both him and his
10894s	team that share right so that like okay
10896s	that'll help you with recovery come back
10898s	and play aggressive right when you do
10899s	that that can get broken by Shield
10901s	breaker move so like a Wonder Woman or
10903s	Shaggy narrow or anything with purple on
10905s	it you can break that also it's only
10906s	three hits and then if it all wears off
10908s	then you can get caught all called out
10910s	of that if you swap over to Morty you
10912s	hit one button they come back to you
10913s	immediately like so it's just way easier
10916s	to do especially at top level there's
10917s	less things to think about and allows
10920s	you to be able to play the game you want
10921s	to but of course in every game
10922s	especially fighting games people find
10924s	those characters that they attach to and
10926s	they identify with and so they play
10928s	those characters a lot more often
10930s	through thick and thin it's a lot more
10931s	common in fighting games than in like
10933s	say like a MOBA or something just
10935s	because you find yourself attached with
10937s	those characters so there's still going
10938s	to be though Steven Universe Mains out
10940s	there they're just not hearing this
10942s	bracket today or in last week's bracket
10943s	so just not as common Europe as for
10945s	Garnet I have not seen this character at
10947s	all in Brackets we've seen it a couple
10949s	of times she can work I just think she's
10952s	very different from the whole rest of
10954s	the roster I feel like when I picked up
10956s	every single character in this game and
10958s	I picked them and I started going into
10959s	the game right
10960s	first thing I do is I go to the lab I
10962s	play every character I see like what
10963s	their moves are feel them out what's
10965s	going to happen here there are two
10967s	characters that did not feel
10969s	instinctively like like I I didn't pick
10972s	them up right away that took me a while
10973s	to figure them out like oh I get it now
10975s	that was Garnet and Black Adam uh Garnet
10978s	is a character that just feels
10980s	incredibly different from the rest of
10982s	the cast in terms of how the combo
10983s	strings work in terms of how the spike
10985s	Works in terms of like a lot of stuff
10987s	she's still really good but she just
10989s	like she's different it requires a
10991s	different type of mindset to play her I
10992s	think black Adam's in the same spot
10993s	where he just feels so like his combos
10996s	game is so flashy it requires a lot of
10999s	thought in my opinion that you like you
11001s	can't just learn right out the gate
11002s	compared to like someone like Finn for
11004s	instance I think Finn's combo game I
11006s	figured out in like two seconds you know
11008s	like I picked up the game I was like
11009s	Downer up air back like you know like
11011s	that's all you got to do a lot of the
11012s	combos in this game revolve around down
11014s	air into something into like an upper
11016s	level in Garnet and Black Adam don't
11018s	really have that as much as the rest of
11020s	the cast I apologize for interrupting
11022s	you here uh Aussie as we get into this
11024s	round one we do have a very very
11026s	decisive uh Ground start from Pontiac
11029s	and trap who immediately pushed blue
11031s	team off of the stage and we do get up
11034s	before a lot of damage going out onto
11037s	both Finn and Morty who are both sitting
11040s	above 80 right now as opposed to the 60
11043s	things he's been at and the 43 Percy
11046s	brain dog at very commanding round start
11047s	and really really good first start for
11050s	this loser's uh quarters
11054s	yeah uh uh Lose Yourself jumping into
11058s	right now yeah yeah so no it's okay
11059s	we're here in best of five territory
11061s	still that's a whole top eight right so
11063s	you gotta be that brace to three see
11065s	who's gonna be able to take out this
11066s	tournament set right out the gate you're
11068s	gonna notice that trap playing a really
11069s	good keep away game throwing out these
11071s	projectiles from a very very safe
11072s	distance trying to throw out the
11074s	fireball off the fireball as well as
11075s	those little projectiles from neutral
11077s	special but hold on a second that's
11078s	gonna be the first life going in favor
11080s	of blue team you hear that Finch going
11082s	off to the top but Travis doing a good
11084s	job of playing stock tank oh really
11086s	really good recovery there by Morty and
11088s	the up Air does not unfortunately knock
11090s	out the thin but it doesn't rack up a
11091s	nice 30-27 and the very first knockout
11094s	for Pontiac and trap does go out on
11099s	yeah oh hold on a second now that sock
11104s	tanking action's gonna come in clutch
11106s	here for trop being able to sit there
11107s	with the 91 damage try to survive look
11109s	at them they're trying to chase after
11110s	that's what you gotta do you're playing
11111s	the support character you gotta go after
11113s	that sport character do not let them
11114s	play the game they want to play that's
11116s	exactly what you're going to see here
11117s	from The Blue Team not only they're at
11118s	high damage but they're also just trying
11120s	to set up shop here not going to commit
11121s	that up special just yet wants to play a
11123s	little fade away game see how they react
11124s	instead as we're going down here the 124
11127s	the tether going to come in add a lot of
11128s	passive damage get called out by that
11130s	gem on top of that the lightning strike
11132s	is going to be able to do a lot of
11133s	Wonders couldn't get the upper special
11134s	on the right side of the stage and now
11136s	we're seeing another final first life
11138s	taken away from Trap it's really good I
11140s	believe that was actually a grenade
11141s	confirmed that ended up knocking out
11143s	tribe there but I want to just say drop
11145s	is job is really showing that supports
11147s	got paused you know you can't sleep on
11150s	rain deck as exclusively just kind of
11151s	being an assistant to fend because if
11153s	you decide to go ahead and actually
11154s	Target this rain dog you're going to
11156s	take quite a little bit of damage for it
11158s	and I think that's really what the blue
11161s	team is starting to learn they have to
11162s	go after that then at a high percentage
11164s	but they also need to keep that rain dog
11166s	off of them because rain dog will come
11168s	and interrupt them with Adair easily
11170s	knocking them out so very very careful
11173s	play by both the Morty and the fin on
11175s	the blue team to go ahead and keep that
11177s	rain dog at Bay
11180s	now sitting on that 64 damage is trying
11182s	to just apply pressure and everyone's in
11184s	danger territory except for trab again
11187s	that's been kind of like the name of the
11188s	game so far in the sky Arena flat Open
11190s	Stage look he's projectiles being flying
11192s	left to right right to left hold on a
11194s	second trab's in danger you see the
11196s	chase after him as well uses the
11197s	projectile to get back on their teammate
11199s	Finn coming in clutch phonics trying to
11201s	get a punch on top of that transfer as
11203s	long as they can only charged up attack
11205s	on the ground gonna solidify that first
11206s	point they have a lead but not for long
11208s	now they're in trouble
11210s	finishes it off three points in a row
11215s	taken from both teams red team putting
11217s	the first point on the board here in
11219s	this tremendous series we're seeing so
11220s	far very good play by the red team here
11223s	and I want to just show off exactly how
11225s	they were able to quickly get this
11226s	started you see them over here at the
11228s	high percentage they got the early lead
11230s	as I stated
11231s	um during your succinct analysis that we
11233s	had at the start of the match we saw red
11234s	team immediately take a very aggressive
11236s	round start get that early damage out on
11238s	Blue Team push them off the stage and it
11240s	allowed rain dog time to go ahead and
11241s	set up this projectile game which we see
11243s	at every single stage of knockout even
11245s	when we watch rain dog get knocked out
11247s	themselves we see rain dog being careful
11249s	touching all these projectiles one for
11251s	one and even when blue team becomes a
11253s	stock up immediately we see rain dog
11255s	puts them inside of situations where
11257s	he's able to go ahead and stop those
11258s	grenade setups and let Finn go wild
11261s	absolutely brazy with some of these
11264s	knockout confirms I was actually a
11265s	really big fan of the Synergy that both
11268s	Jake and Rain dog had coming into this
11271s	very next match now I have to ask you uh
11274s	Aussie because obviously you really
11276s	truly understand uh how much the
11278s	projectile game helped the red team
11280s	there do you think we're looking at at a
11282s	counterpick stage that will actually
11283s	include more projectiles making it a
11285s	little bit harder for random to get
11286s	started or do you think we're going to
11287s	go back to a no platform stage
11290s	um I mean the no platform stage is also
11292s	a pretty good pick to use against rain
11294s	dog just because there are no platforms
11296s	available
11297s	um I'm not sure I could see them going
11299s	straight back like sky Arena I feel like
11301s	that was a pretty good pick just to put
11302s	against rain dog when you give rain dog
11304s	platforms that allows them to be able to
11305s	put the Fireballs on the platforms on
11307s	top of that allows them to be able to
11308s	escape even easier because he has
11310s	platforms to be able to safely land on
11312s	which granted I feel like they weren't
11314s	really chasing after him instead of
11315s	focusing on the stages I want to focus
11317s	on them chasing after rain dog more
11318s	applying pressure towards rain dog I
11320s	feel like ponyx was doing a fantastic
11321s	job of just keeping them off of them
11323s	because trab needs to be taken care of
11325s	and I don't think it's going to come
11326s	down to Stage pick I think it's going to
11328s	come down to how their playstyles are
11329s	playing completely agree uh it's it's
11332s	really it's really an interesting match
11334s	for sure and I think this round star is
11336s	just going to be as important as it was
11338s	previously so I'm very interested to see
11340s	what stage they go on uh what the round
11342s	starts going to be are we ah actually
11344s	looks like we're looking at trophies
11345s	Edge yet again whoa wow I I don't agree
11348s	with this counter pick again against red
11350s	team because rain dog can thrive on this
11353s	stage it does help blue team play the
11355s	aggressive game I guess because it's
11357s	hard for him to run away but if they're
11358s	able to set up shop on one of the other
11360s	platforms it's hard to break open but I
11361s	guess it's working out for them look at
11363s	them already charging them down playing
11364s	the very aggressive game this is what
11366s	I'm talking about though with that metal
11367s	platform it's very tough for them to be
11369s	able to try to like get in there with
11370s	all these projectiles going unfortunate
11371s	placement of that tether going left
11372s	instead of right puts up again this is
11374s	what I'm talking about look at Trump
11375s	he's just able to set up so much shot
11376s	the second there's a little bit of
11377s	distance that's the problem with this
11379s	stage against projectiles they have to
11381s	be able to get in and it looks like blue
11382s	team ultimately does racks up a limited
11385s	amount of percentage and I I'm noting
11387s	I'm noting it's exactly as you say here
11389s	Aussie look at how hard your team has to
11391s	work even just for what they got there
11393s	which was I want to remind our viewers
11395s	12 they worked that hard they got 12
11398s	they ended up taking a total of 30 and
11400s	now both under the blue team are sitting
11402s	there each over a hundred percent as
11404s	opposed to the red team who's still
11405s	sitting very safe under 60 each
11410s	and if you're just keeping an eye on
11412s	tribe the entire time he's barely done
11414s	anything besides shoot off projectiles
11415s	set up shop with the grenades throughout
11417s	the fireballs and then once he goes in
11418s	he hits the downer into the up air
11420s	shrink it's a very common plan you'll
11422s	see from rain dogs and it works
11423s	tremendously when there's no pressure
11424s	being applied to him which is kind of
11426s	not happening right now from routine
11428s	with this counterpick stage he's able to
11430s	run free look at this he's not doing
11431s	anything he's just shooting out
11432s	projectiles and blue team they just
11434s	can't find their way in when they do you
11436s	know you see phonics come in and try to
11438s	retaliate against them now they're in a
11440s	bad spot hold on a second throwing it
11441s	out great recovery coming out from
11443s	trouble unfortunately couldn't get the
11444s	tether off in time to save off phonics
11446s	if that was Morty could have been able
11447s	to survive right this is the one button
11449s	push you had to get that tether locked
11450s	up down is tremendous KO Sharpie wow
11457s	great dog has lost a number of their
11460s	recovery moves and was still able to
11462s	make it back on the stage just because
11463s	of that projectile pressure in addition
11465s	to also getting another knockout
11466s	ultimately they did get knocked out
11467s	there but watching the way that red
11469s	teams performed inside of that heavy
11471s	pressure situation just for the edge
11473s	guard game the way that they work just
11475s	for it to ultimately come back on their
11477s	account I still want to save red team is
11478s	up because look at that damage right now
11480s	on that Sim we're looking at 140 right
11483s	now and we're looking at a Morty at 72
11485s	percent they are primed and ready for a
11488s	double knockout right now red team is
11489s	just in fantastic form this match
11493s	yeah again I think this this is coming
11495s	down to the stage this is 100 you saw
11498s	that top by the way trap just haunted in
11501s	the middle of deck after that KO
11502s	something's happening here or not I'm
11505s	not sure what's going on but we're
11506s	seeing trap just be able to survive a
11508s	little bit longer shooting us
11509s	projectiles give me electric oh
11510s	fantastic KO food coming out from pie so
11513s	all of a sudden this is gonna be a
11514s	really slippery slope all they need to
11516s	do is get this one last KO against him
11518s	you see trap trying to chase after the
11520s	Morty looks for this opening trying to
11522s	find the mark against Timmy Timmy just
11523s	trying to survive for as long as
11524s	possible sitting at 130 damage oh he's
11526s	just one swing one down and that's gonna
11528s	be able to slide its Mark red team
11529s	taking yet another game close as I
11532s	thought it was gonna be but what a
11533s	gamble of a counter pick you know
11535s	watching the way that red team performs
11536s	inside this matchup and this is exactly
11537s	what I think both of us were talking
11538s	about here look at the percentages
11540s	compared to literally how hard blue team
11543s	had to work for every single stock every
11545s	single time blue team got a knockout you
11548s	watch the right team this recovery right
11549s	here right here jumps out puts out the
11551s	projectile game get the knock out on the
11555s	Morty still that is that is ridiculous
11558s	austie that is that that to me is
11560s	mind-boggling are you really looking at
11563s	a support are you looking at BM and by
11565s	BM I mean a bad mummy you know what I
11568s	mean he is bad he is bad in the best way
11571s	and you love to see it because it is
11573s	just so beautiful to see a support that
11576s	can not only punch but also use their
11578s	paws to maintain a lead in this way
11580s	truthfully I am absolutely in awe of
11584s	tribe going into this matchup and
11586s	they're still they're still very
11588s	enjoyable for me to watch I know we got
11589s	a little bit of bias I can't help it
11591s	when I see that level of gameplay a
11594s	little bit just a smell a little smidge
11596s	almost as much as we saw tether you know
11598s	what I mean just a little bit just
11599s	enough that it counts and I'm I'm really
11601s	enjoying this setup here I'm really
11603s	enjoying this match but I am genuinely
11605s	hoping that both pleb and Timmy are able
11607s	to bring it back that counter pick as
11609s	you said was not necessarily a stage in
11611s	their favor so hopefully we will see
11612s	them go back over to Sky Arenas and pick
11614s	a stage that that gives them a little
11615s	bit more Comfort possibly
11618s	yeah I I think my favorite thing about
11621s	this set is trab survivability just
11623s	staying alive playing the long game
11625s	playing the support role in true
11627s	Fashions I don't know how many times
11628s	I've Seen Rain Dogs charge in and try to
11630s	play the melee game which granted rain
11632s	dog has a strong melee tool right that
11634s	down air is one of the best downers in
11635s	the game in my opinion it's not only can
11637s	you charges so it comes out faster once
11639s	you commit to it you can move around
11640s	with it it also has a gigantic hitbox
11643s	allows you to be able to combo off of it
11644s	very strongly but the thing is that's
11646s	not where rain dog strength is rain dog
11648s	strength is what he's doing right now
11650s	staying away from the battle and setting
11652s	up shop putting down cover fire for his
11655s	teammate to wreck shop good call out
11657s	there as well for that sare on Morty's
11660s	side right there to kind of cover it
11661s	look at the way that blue team has kind
11662s	of recognized we need to push red team
11664s	out of the match before they can go
11666s	ahead and get started they're doing a
11667s	really good job of basically stopping
11669s	brain dog when he is stuck inside of
11671s	those animation frames But ultimately it
11673s	is only going to result in one knockout
11674s	right now you team moving a lot slower a
11677s	lot more likely and most importantly
11679s	they're moving together not necessarily
11681s	having to worry about any gaps inside of
11683s	the stage like they had on trophy's edge
11685s	I think it's doing a lot more positive
11688s	things for them inside of the specific
11689s	match
11691s	yeah it's really helping them out and in
11693s	the long run also traps recovery also I
11696s	want to mention is that of special it
11698s	gives you a lot of aerial Mobility to be
11699s	able to go from right side to the left
11701s	side Here Comes Finn by the way Club
11702s	tank trying to get something going here
11704s	with the down attack so tether not going
11705s	to commit to it just yet until he finds
11707s	himself in a safe spot I like that wait
11709s	for phonics to come back in and we'll
11711s	see how the gameplay is going to come
11712s	out meanwhile you see Timmy coming down
11714s	with the downers the side areas Galore
11715s	throwing out the grenades here we go
11716s	Blue Team awake trying to find these
11719s	down air actions both for the team have
11721s	very strong down at the top left wow the
11723s	size special to avoid that KO again and
11725s	puts armor on you very good get out of
11727s	jail free card for Morty very very nice
11729s	setup as well and I just love the way
11732s	that Morty is kind of meeting and
11734s	answering and challenging a lot of these
11737s	aerial moves by rain dog right now to
11739s	stay inside the game using that armor
11740s	and uh sacrificing that damage but in
11742s	the same vein look at the way that armor
11744s	that that rain dog is using these
11745s	projectile flame setups to kind of
11747s	increase the amount of damage they get
11749s	making it so that these Knockouts are
11751s	much faster wow we just have almost a
11753s	completely percentage reset right now
11755s	sitting pretty at 111 literally one up
11760s	air away from Death having to be very
11762s	very careful and tethered immediately
11764s	into the arms of the Bluefin did not
11765s	want that very clearly but was able to
11767s	escape from getting possibly knocked out
11769s	there yeah that was caught in a bad spot
11772s	oh no he didn't want to commit to the up
11773s	special I respect it Colette was trying
11776s	to wait for like some sort of like Dash
11778s	Down recovery to see what they could do
11780s	as a punish game but now we're seeing
11781s	Trev caught in a bad spot they're
11783s	chasing after they're not letting him
11785s	play his game anymore but meanwhile on
11787s	the other side of the design we're
11788s	seeing a Finn do on the right side
11789s	panic's just kind of staying in the game
11791s	with 139 trying to stay alive for as
11793s	long as possible but at the end of the
11794s	day it's gonna be all on trap to stay
11796s	alive for even longer right because at
11798s	this point it kind of except that
11799s	phonics is going to lose their life so
11801s	it's about him just trying to give him
11803s	as much wiggle room as possible for the
11805s	next life I really like this aggressive
11807s	almost pitbull-esque rain dog right now
11809s	kind of like they just let him off the
11811s	legion they just said go go go rain dog
11813s	obviously you don't want to go go go off
11814s	the stage but you do want to go go go to
11816s	secure these Knockouts you know what I
11817s	mean
11818s	oh yeah but unfortunately got called out
11820s	all the resources very good Edge
11823s	guarding coming out from Blue Team just
11824s	constantly calling calling on all those
11826s	tools to commit to a double jump smack
11829s	him commit to a special smack I'm
11831s	running out of resources and you finally
11832s	fall down Aussie can you kind of bring
11833s	us through exactly how blue team was
11835s	able to secure this here
11837s	they won
11838s	they beat them they they smack them up
11840s	they uh they hit him with their sword
11842s	and they're uh Morty hammer and because
11845s	they hit them uh their damages went up
11847s	uh would you say that
11850s	that they uh managed to go ahead and
11852s	Leash that dog you know a lot of people
11853s	say who let the dogs out do you say they
11855s	put the dog back in whoa
11862s	I think it's very obvious what I'm
11864s	saying I think that they managed to
11866s	avoid I think they managed to rain that
11868s	dog in get what I'm saying here I think
11872s	I think they did a brain dog go ahead
11874s	and check out the make a rain dog
11875s	tournaments happening on this Thursday
11877s	TV slash player first games
11880s	great plug great plug I I not only
11883s	appreciated that plug but I also
11885s	appreciate it that win by pleb and Timmy
11888s	there who brought it back at a crucial
11890s	moment and several times at that very
11892s	last match now I know we've talked
11894s	several times about the act of yomi that
11895s	is understanding and conditioning your
11897s	enemy player do you think that we're
11899s	starting to see that here for the blue
11901s	team we're starting to see a little bit
11902s	more change that we needed they do have
11904s	themselves up one uh I'm sorry they're
11907s	not currently up one but the score is
11908s	currently one two not necessarily inside
11910s	of their favor uh do you think that
11912s	we're looking at a possible comeback
11913s	right now for Timmy and pleb
11917s	absolutely not they're gonna get smacked
11919s	up this next game panics and travel
11920s	gonna come in here get a four stock win
11922s	send them down to fourth place and jump
11924s	into losers finals that's what I'm
11926s	saying that's what I'm sensing I'm
11927s	calling it I'm shipping it okay okay
11929s	fair put my vote in the ballot baby fair
11931s	fair on my on my end I am really excited
11935s	to see The Blue Team performing well
11936s	inside that last matchup I do think they
11938s	identified the threat which is as I said
11940s	previously rain dog um I do think that
11943s	Finn did a great job of keeping his uh
11945s	percentages safe making sure that he
11947s	wasn't necessarily knocked out as early
11949s	as we saw previously
11951s	um but it was still definitely red
11953s	team's game to lose and I think that
11955s	momentum shift is ultimately going to
11957s	help uh really play well towards the
11960s	blue team here but it's once again still
11963s	rain dog and Finn's team a game to lose
11966s	Morty and Finn really have to continue
11968s	to step it up here and it's going to
11969s	start by making sure that they win in
11971s	both the opening and on the stage select
11974s	as you know
11976s	yeah well here we go going for game
11978s	number four Stitch looks gonna be sky
11980s	Arena this is gonna be a great stage for
11982s	Trad be able to just like have this Big
11984s	Wide Open Stage that's exactly how it's
11986s	gonna start off but now we're seeing a
11988s	way more aggressive blue team not
11989s	against ponics but against trap this is
11991s	what I was talking about the entire set
11993s	is you gotta chase after rain dog and
11995s	that's what we're starting to see here
11996s	granted they're doing a really good job
11998s	playing this keep away game because of
12000s	this massive Open Stage look at these
12002s	cut team combos coming out holy moly I'm
12005s	seeing a lot of confirmed right now for
12009s	both people uh for both teams but I'm
12011s	ultimately seeing red team coming out on
12013s	top Morty's sitting at 120 right now
12015s	Finn trying to separate the red team
12018s	right now and taking a lot of tether
12020s	damage in the intro I cannot believe
12022s	that Morty's already at 133
12024s	that to me is so incredibly strange
12027s	especially considering the round side we
12028s	have right now I like I said it's all up
12030s	to the round start and I'm showing that
12032s	red team has already gotten themselves
12033s	established like I said it's their game
12035s	to lose and they're really showing why
12038s	they aren't here why they are this far
12039s	inside of top eight
12042s	Sharpie you ever get that daily mission
12043s	where it's like I need to get 350 damage
12046s	you know what character I picked for
12047s	that I pick a rain dog this guy can pick
12049s	so much damage off of Just passive
12052s	damage whether it's a tether straight
12054s	projectiles his strong down air again
12056s	which we just saw witness Court some Kos
12059s	like he just got so many tools that just
12061s	adds up damage really fast and before
12062s	you know it you're at triple digits
12064s	that's just kind of the name of the game
12065s	with rain dog he's so good racking up
12067s	that damage you know and it's really
12069s	interesting as well because we don't
12070s	have that many rain dogs inside of the
12072s	bracket this is the only rain dog I
12074s	believe that we saw inside of top eight
12076s	and it's it's really nice to see a team
12078s	like this being able to coordinate and
12080s	work so well because rain dog is one of
12082s	those characters that you do have to be
12083s	very careful about working with when
12085s	he's separated from his teammate and he
12087s	has to work alone you have to be ready
12088s	to be just as aggressive and just as
12090s	strong and just as succinct about
12094s	security so please knockout situations
12095s	or seeing that trap is up to the task
12097s	both members of the red team are sitting
12099s	at 100 right now that down here could
12101s	punch it no such luck comes back down
12104s	and upayer does go ahead and secure that
12106s	knockout on the Trap there very first
12109s	stop for the pleb and Timmy and uh it's
12113s	it's it's not looking that great right
12115s	now for them anymore yeah look at that
12117s	it's looking a little Bleak look at that
12119s	triple damage on Blue Team like this
12121s	could be a little bit too late because
12123s	literally one swings away from losing
12126s	their bracket going home with a fourth
12127s	place finish phonics and trap trying to
12129s	get these last hits on them all they
12131s	need is this one down here but look at
12133s	this strength they're not going down
12134s	without a fine blood tank going out
12135s	there getting a ton of combo damage off
12137s	stage gets the follow-up from Timmy
12139s	coming out here trying to get rid of
12140s	this right now they do it they're coming
12143s	back from the devs of nothing to try to
12145s	stay alive for as long as possible
12147s	they're both at very dangerous damage
12149s	hit the rack up so much against some
12150s	early chaos to try to bring this back
12152s	three points or two blue team
12154s	theoretically has the lead but not in
12155s	terms of the damage but Chris he always
12157s	goes that's one down here gonna get one
12158s	more upper Jimmy has to stay alive 161
12161s	damage
12165s	on top of that looking out for these
12167s	follow-ups he's got to stay alive for
12169s	his dangerous
12172s	you know watching all of that unfold in
12175s	real time is truthfully uh just a master
12179s	class and how to make sure that you stay
12182s	inside of a reactive State at every
12184s	single point in time of the game I don't
12186s	think there was a single moment that red
12188s	team didn't necessarily have the power
12191s	to go ahead and change the pace of the
12192s	match and they use it several times you
12194s	watch rain dog just sitting back taking
12196s	more of a passive role and the minute
12198s	that there is a 2V1 situation you watch
12201s	rain dog get into The Fray start mashing
12203s	out that down air Beautiful by Finn but
12206s	was it enough it was not because
12207s	immediately what we see here is a
12209s	follow-up by that rain down here to go
12211s	ahead and secure that knockout and that
12212s	we have yet another up air and but a few
12215s	moments to go ahead and secure this
12217s	final knockout onto the fin beautiful
12220s	play by both panic and trap obviously
12224s	trap is my personal MVP coming out of
12226s	that match but I'm very very excited to
12229s	see what lies inside of the remainder of
12231s	this bracket for top eight
12233s	I'm oxide as well Sharpie but I think
12236s	we're gonna have to contain our
12237s	excitement because right now I need a
12239s	breather you need a breather we all need
12241s	a breather guys we got losers finals
12244s	coming up but don't go anywhere we'll be
12246s	right back
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12929s	welcome back everybody to EU West number
12934s	two open bracket for fall Showdown
12937s	multiverses I am one of your co-casters
12941s	the purple Sharpie but you can call me
12943s	Sharpie and I'm here with my good friend
12945s	and co-host Austin Austy what do you
12948s	think of the bracket so far
12950s	um it's been kind of incredible I like
12953s	seeing all the sets we've seen from
12954s	Europe one of my favorite things about
12955s	doing stuff like this and watching these
12957s	tournaments from Europe is I don't
12958s	really get to see them play as much
12960s	because their tournaments always happen
12961s	at times I'm asleep you know and granted
12963s	that's fine that should be something
12964s	that's fair but now I'm forced to wake
12966s	up to commentate over it and God bless
12969s	I'm so excited that it was forced to do
12971s	such a thing because now I can actually
12973s	see these sets happen in real time it's
12975s	been quite quite a hoot such a trail
12977s	that we've seen so far Sharpie for sure
12979s	and as we go through this bracket uh
12982s	shown I believe on the stream and but a
12984s	few moments you can see that we have a
12987s	very very large bracket so far on the
12990s	winter side we originally had Pontiac
12991s	and trap who ultimately lost to viren
12993s	and VIP 3-0 we also had pleb and Timmy
12997s	who played up against two Senpai and MJ
12999s	ultimately came out on the loser side MJ
13002s	and two Senpai moving forward three two
13004s	we have a bar in Elroy who smashed L
13007s	walk and uh Jos 3-0 we had Phantom and M
13011s	Shin who absolutely dominated uh uh bod
13015s	and Minnie Michael 3-1 and on the
13017s	Winner's final side but back up at the
13020s	top of the bracket we had two Senpai and
13022s	MJ come out ultimately on top against
13025s	viren and rip 3-2 knocking them down
13027s	into our very next match that we will be
13029s	watching which will be Varian invip
13030s	versus panic and trab now viren and VIP
13034s	are known for playing Jake and Arya
13037s	inside of these matches and they have
13039s	come out very very strong from the
13041s	get-go now panic and trab are two
13044s	players that they actually knocked out
13045s	originally into the losers at the start
13047s	of this top eight trab being a very
13050s	well-known rain dog and Pontiac as well
13053s	being a relatively a relatively okay
13055s	known uh Finn here now ultimately as we
13059s	go into this very next match of losers
13061s	finals we asked and posed you a question
13064s	on twitter.com mvs gaming we asked do
13068s	you think viren and ripple will come out
13070s	of losers for the run back you all gave
13073s	us your answers it was actually a 50 50
13074s	split between yes and no now Aussie
13077s	before I come to you for your thoughts
13079s	on this I want to remind all reviewers
13082s	and listeners that you could also help
13085s	us be this tiebreaker by going through
13087s	to twitter.com MBS gaming and making
13090s	sure that you engage with not only the
13091s	clips and highlights of all of
13092s	competitive multiverses but also the
13094s	amazing polls that we have that may
13096s	actually end up showing up on stream
13097s	with that being said Aussie what are
13099s	your thoughts as we go into losers
13100s	finals regarding uh rip and viren's
13103s	status
13104s	All I'm gonna say
13106s	is winner semis viren and rip got a 3-0
13111s	against ponics and trap
13113s	that's it
13115s	that's all I'm gonna say sometimes
13116s	that's all that's needs to be said you
13118s	know sometimes all we need to do is just
13119s	remind people about what happened
13121s	earlier inside this bracket personally
13123s	as someone who watched trap and panic
13126s	actually perform incredibly well it's
13128s	like this early part of the bracket I'm
13130s	interested to see if that adaptation
13132s	that they've had against other players
13134s	may actually have them running hot as
13136s	we've mentioned inside of this bracket
13137s	previously running hot is the Players
13140s	basically playing all the way through a
13142s	bracket and just getting those juices
13143s	flowing you know being ready and uh fast
13146s	to change anything as needed inside of
13150s	the bracket do you think do you think
13152s	that there's a chance that we could see
13153s	Varian and rip who who have had an
13155s	opportunity to kind of like sit on their
13157s	thoughts make some adaptation and
13159s	changes most notably we see viren over
13162s	here not necessarily on catechocat but
13163s	actually on alien cyborg-esque Jake here
13167s	uh what do you think what do you think
13169s	that adaptation is going to do for this
13171s	next match
13172s	I dude it could go either way I I think
13176s	literally one thing I think will
13178s	actually help out immensely for the
13180s	losers team the one coming from loser
13182s	semisphonics and trap is that they've
13184s	been on fire right they just got off the
13186s	heels of winning a set two sets in a row
13188s	meanwhile you know if you're in rip
13191s	their last set they lost and they had to
13193s	sit on that for a while so we'll have to
13194s	wait and see but interesting start by
13196s	the way that they allowed trophies Edge
13198s	too like again this is a fantastic stage
13201s	for the likes of rain dog can easily
13203s	just stay back do the tether on them and
13205s	throw out the projectiles but I think
13206s	what grip and baron want to go for is
13209s	these really early chaos which is hard
13211s	to avoid on it's such a small stage like
13213s	that it is actually working out in their
13215s	favor they don't care if that uh rain
13217s	dog to have set up shop on one of the
13219s	edges of the stage because they're going
13221s	up there and they're getting these
13222s	combos baby yeah and it's it's
13223s	interesting because I think that Jake
13225s	and Arya both have tools that allow them
13227s	to stick very easily to characters like
13229s	rain dog and make it harder for fans who
13231s	has less mobile
13233s	tools to get back without the assistance
13235s	of brain dog tether to kind of assist
13236s	rain dog in supporting their Jake really
13239s	has to sit next to rain dog because the
13240s	minute rain dog gets separated you're
13242s	looking at another knockout two
13243s	Knockouts courtesy of Arya and Jake on
13247s	that poor little rain dog right there
13249s	everyone that has played against Onyx
13252s	and traps today has not been doing the
13254s	whole thing of chasing down rain dog not
13256s	letting him play the game Crazy
13257s	meanwhile Vernon
13272s	so fast
13275s	I'm happy that we have the replays
13277s	because I believe at this point
13280s	more than that entire match did
13282s	it was a shutout as you said austie it
13286s	was a four stock shutout we saw Jake and
13289s	uh Aria separate rain dog and Fenn
13292s	multiple times and every single time
13293s	resulted in finned I'm sorry rain dog's
13296s	death actually I believe rain dog was
13299s	four out of four of those that's looking
13300s	back on it here literally every single
13302s	stock loss was ultimately because rain
13305s	dog was stuck by both Jake and
13309s	the Haria it's hard not to get it's hard
13312s	not to have a character like Arya just
13314s	stick to you the entire time
13316s	yeah especially when you got like a uh
13318s	Jake uh all over you on top of that try
13320s	to get those like up specials near the
13322s	top on top of that but that entire game
13325s	that's exactly how you have to play
13326s	against the likes of a support character
13329s	just in general like you'll notice that
13331s	on their team there's no support it's an
13333s	Arya and a jake what they're doing is
13335s	that they're just trying to get these
13337s	really really early KO as well also
13339s	relying on the survivability of uh
13342s	virens Jake because of the heavy weight
13343s	that Jake has to brings to the table on
13346s	top of that they were just mashing on
13348s	rain dog not allowing in like not
13349s	allowing uh trap to play the game right
13352s	like all all three of those chaos were
13354s	very low damage in the final KO off of
13356s	when they got it on pawnex near the top
13358s	of the stage there was a missed uh
13359s	tether coming out from Trap so even then
13361s	that was just like an unfortunate thing
13363s	that just did not work out for them on
13364s	trophies Edge too not not sure what
13367s	we're gonna see here for game number two
13368s	because they got a slug you gotta shake
13370s	that off right we've seen games like
13372s	that happen before in the past if you're
13374s	in grip started the exact same way in
13376s	winners finals and they didn't end up
13377s	winning the sets so it's very easy to
13380s	try to come in here and adapt and change
13382s	the play style I think it's also easy to
13384s	get overrun game number one by a maybe
13386s	like a game plan you're not quite used
13387s	to just yet for sure I'm interested to
13391s	see exactly what stage we'll see them
13392s	take to uh because if if if my memory
13396s	and my notes serve correct I believe
13398s	actually Darren and rip took them as
13399s	well to uh sky Arena the very first time
13402s	and they actually took them to Trophies
13403s	Edge this time which was counter picked
13406s	last time inside of Winner's Side by
13408s	Trav and Pontiac so it was almost as
13410s	though they knew what stages they could
13412s	like necessarily feel comfortable at uh
13414s	because they do ultimately have to win
13416s	that coin toss in order to determine so
13418s	I I'm interested in seeing whether or
13419s	not trab and Pontiac actually chose
13421s	trophy's Edge there and what the counter
13423s	pick is going to be here are we going to
13424s	see sky Arena platforms I personally
13426s	believe so but ultimately uh we'll see
13429s	this guy Arena no platform very smart
13432s	decision in my head in my decision year
13434s	and we do see that change over to Morty
13436s	great recovery as well it is on a really
13438s	long cooldown so they have to be very
13440s	respectful of the way that they choose
13442s	to approach after this
13444s	um really excited to see what grip and
13446s	viren are going to do inside of this
13448s	matchup Veron having such a strong start
13450s	with that down there at the forcing
13452s	Morty to use his really good cooldown
13454s	early on is a really strong ability to
13457s	be able to just kind of get in there and
13458s	Rush down your opponent speaking of
13460s	Morty this is the character we're seeing
13462s	now Travis been playing rain dog all day
13464s	today finally swapping over to the Morty
13466s	instead realizing that okay I can't get
13468s	them in town with the tether I'm being
13469s	overrun which rain dog can really get
13472s	rushed down on Morty has way more Tools
13474s	in his kicks he has such great recovery
13476s	there's a first potato coming out gonna
13478s	be able to get that on steering can they
13480s	get a second one on top look I'm trying
13481s	to chase after the UFO trapped him wow
13484s	wow really good adaptation really good
13487s	of that Morty recovery to ultimately end
13490s	in the death of his own League uh really
13492s	really nice there by bluetooth I think
13494s	they have very strong awareness going
13495s	into this mess and right now I'm looking
13497s	at an aria with full stunts you have to
13499s	be aware you have to be careful oh very
13503s	nice knockout they're trying to secure
13504s	and stop that taking care but they got
13506s	so many recovery tools and now he has
13508s	all of them
13510s	yeah and now all of a sudden you saw
13513s	that Morty was actually stuck that was
13515s	ingenious from biren so there was a
13517s	situation there that drip was just
13519s	bullying pies till she finally got the
13522s	KO the whole time viren what does he do
13525s	he puts Morty in his mouth he can't do
13527s	anything when he's in the mouth for that
13529s	long you can't bring him back from the
13530s	save point that was so smart
13532s	that's gonna hear himself the second
13534s	point a very dominating performance
13536s	coming out from Blue Team yeah a very
13539s	very fast match even again we're seeing
13542s	inside of all these replays uh a really
13544s	common point right the first of which is
13546s	that blue team has moments where they're
13549s	not necessarily at Advantage but somehow
13551s	they stay out of state they go back into
13553s	a state uh they're able to very quickly
13555s	basically uh be a little bit more safe
13557s	be a little bit more defensive and
13559s	immediately the moment that they realize
13561s	they're at Advantage again they go all
13563s	in it's literally like a switch with
13564s	them they understand the opportunities
13566s	that they have to win and they take them
13568s	for all their worth that's what we're
13569s	ultimately seeing yet again and Aussie
13572s	I'm starting to understand now why you
13574s	believe that it is going to be a shutout
13575s	overwhelmingly looking at these first
13577s	two matches
13578s	I agree with the character counterpick
13580s	in terms of like being shut down right
13582s	because that was a better performance
13584s	than game number one because that was a
13586s	brutal the reason you're gonna notice
13588s	that trap switching over to Morty if I
13589s	had to venture a guess he swapped over
13591s	to Morty because he realized all the
13593s	Ko's were super early on when rain dogs
13596s	and disadvantage he doesn't have many
13598s	tools to get out of it that other
13600s	characters don't have he has an up
13601s	special that increases his aerial
13603s	mobility and gives him a little bit of a
13604s	hop but it has projectiles be able to
13606s	try to like throw out like a disjoint a
13609s	little bit against of someone trying to
13610s	play aggressive against him but that's
13612s	pretty much all rain dogs got for him
13613s	and disadvantage State meanwhile Morty's
13615s	disadvantaged state is incredible
13617s	Morning has the ability to go for a side
13619s	special which lets him teleport off
13621s	stage and be able to like equip armor to
13623s	himself as well as appear right behind
13625s	his opponent he has the ability to go
13627s	for the UFO which prevents spikes which
13629s	we saw at the very beginning that if
13630s	that was a rain dog that got caught by
13631s	that early game but rain dog would have
13633s	been done for her but because it was
13634s	Morty mortgage ability to spawn the UFO
13636s	and bring him up back up vertically on
13638s	top top of that he has save Point again
13640s	another resource too that can save both
13643s	himself and his teammates so that's
13644s	three different specials that help Morty
13647s	get back to Stage that rain dog does not
13649s	have now it's very interesting as well
13651s	because while you just named all the
13653s	benefits towards playing Morty we did
13655s	notice that it looks as though trab is
13657s	going on inside of this game three with
13659s	actually a rain dog Choice inside of
13663s	this game
13664s	I'm still seeing sky Arena here it looks
13667s	like he said you know what that just
13668s	wasn't my best day that just wasn't my
13669s	best brain dog I'm gonna do my best you
13672s	know yeah I think it's a stage thing too
13674s	right because you got you get out of
13675s	trophies Edge too and all of a sudden
13678s	like you have more room to work with
13680s	look all this room he's being able to
13681s	play the game that he wants to do right
13682s	throwing up these Fireballs trying to
13683s	fade away from his opponent shoot off
13685s	for dick tails for as long as possible
13687s	and they're not getting like these early
13688s	Catos that you'll see like on the likes
13690s	of trophies Edge 2. he tested the Morty
13692s	it didn't work out and right now he was
13694s	a little bit more confident with the
13695s	rain dub but right now we're witnessing
13696s	two 1v1s from both players it's not
13699s	working on Red's favor he said get over
13700s	here help me out bro we're gonna try
13701s	something new and one of the things I
13704s	want to count out is that in every other
13705s	instance inside of this previous set
13707s	when there was a 1v1 situation rain dog
13709s	actually
13710s	actually extremely hard it doesn't
13711s	manage and ultimately lost the stock
13712s	just like we saw right there um I'm
13714s	unfortunately seeing a repeat I was just
13716s	about to commend red team on how well
13718s	they perform inside that 1v1 not
13719s	including a stop there um and of course
13722s	commentator's curse yeah it always
13724s	happens to the worst of us the best of
13726s	us to all of us and it's gonna keep
13729s	happening bro look at this Chase
13731s	outstage okay good pickup from phonics
13734s	going for a trade but that favorite
13735s	trade is not in their favor he's still
13737s	staying at 132 on viren looking to try
13740s	to set up shop right there you saw that
13741s	oh special just in case rip got a hit
13743s	had that had that thing ready to go in
13745s	case it got caught on the up special
13746s	could have easily caught him off to the
13748s	top he has the up attack on the ground
13749s	fully charged evening up the score but
13752s	in terms of damage not the same story
13754s	right Pines have triple digits 111 drops
13760s	it really just feels like red team right
13763s	now is trying to play ketchup in a game
13764s	where the other team already has the
13766s	mustard the mayonnaise and the bread
13767s	inside of the sandwich it's not looking
13770s	super great for red team
13772s	bro what are you putting mustard and
13773s	mail on
13775s	what sandwich is that
13777s	is it is
13779s	a sandwich
13782s	dude these guys are caught in a sandwich
13784s	right now throw them in the toaster cook
13785s	them like a Pop Tart I don't know what's
13787s	going on but right now it wasn't 37 on
13789s	grip trying to get back in there 141 he
13792s	just needs to stay alive for as long as
13793s	possible he's such a light character
13795s	look out trying to challenge as much as
13797s	possible phonics trying to play from a
13799s	safe distance the score might be even
13800s	bigger a blue team but red team right
13801s	now is the one that's kind of deficit oh
13803s	look it's kind of special good kbi get
13806s	out of that situation and now everything
13807s	all eyes are on beer 149 damage can they
13811s	put up one on the board look at him
13812s	stall out there for as long as possible
13815s	Affair to Nair Galore trying to stay
13817s	alive
13821s	be able to take that set 3-0 in losers
13824s	finals red team was so close Sharpie
13826s	they were so close they just could not
13828s	pull it off at the end an absolute
13830s	shutout 3-0 for viren and uh rip here
13835s	ultimately I think really what allowed
13837s	blue team to come out on top was not
13839s	only singling out that uh that rain dog
13842s	but also the Jake player being an
13844s	amazing stock take inside of these
13846s	instances in both cases we saw Jake get
13849s	up to over a hundred percent prior to
13851s	being knocked out and by a hundred I'm
13854s	talking about 139 I'm talking about 122.
13857s	every single time we saw Jake stalling
13860s	to go ahead and make sure that that
13862s	final stock death was not necessarily
13864s	him The Knockout and the awareness of
13867s	blue team here on when to when to go
13870s	ahead and get closer when to go ahead
13872s	and separate and when to play 1v1 versus
13874s	2V1 situations was ultimately LED them
13877s	to success inside of here and also
13879s	brought them onto the grand finals here
13881s	where they will have to ultimately win
13883s	three total games to reset the bracket
13885s	and then another three to move forward
13887s	with the win
13888s	um Aussie it looks like you were correct
13890s	that's a 3-0 shutout inside of losers
13892s	finals here I didn't call it I didn't
13894s	call it I just simply stated a fact that
13897s	happened winter semis and I was almost
13899s	proven wrong that last game of red team
13901s	almost brought that back you saw planks
13903s	and Trev trying to bring it back and I'm
13905s	gonna be real right now I am a huge fan
13907s	of phonics and tribe I actually did want
13909s	them to win because I love good rain dog
13912s	play trab was playing so well this
13914s	entire tournament I feel like he finally
13917s	found his footing on game three
13919s	unfortunately when you find your footing
13921s	you start to get that matchmaking back
13923s	in you already added 2-0 deficit so my
13926s	it was just a little bit too late game
13927s	one unfortunately uh trophies Edge 2
13930s	didn't work out for them because of the
13931s	very significantly early chaos rain dog
13934s	couldn't get away was constantly getting
13935s	rushed down game two tried out the Morty
13937s	for the survivability to sake didn't
13939s	work out as much so the second you
13941s	finally go down to rain dog on a
13942s	comfortable stage you're already down
13943s	2-0
13944s	and so it's just a little bit too late
13946s	even though the team's energy was coming
13948s	there but congratulations to them they
13949s	got third place qualifying for the
13951s	finals happening in two weeks for the
13953s	big EU finals as well as the na West
13955s	East finals happening that's going to be
13957s	a great weekend I believe that's
13958s	November 19th and 20th that's going to
13959s	be coming up cannot wait for that but
13962s	before anything gets decided we've still
13965s	got one more set to play sharp here we
13967s	do as a matter of finals we have grand
13969s	finals coming up right now featuring a
13971s	repeat of what we saw inside of winners
13973s	files it's going to be two Senpai and MJ
13976s	up against viren and rip the on the
13979s	loser side now now as a reminder to
13981s	Senpai and MJ did actually ultimately
13984s	win 3-2 against viren and rip inside of
13988s	winners finals I don't know if we're
13990s	looking at a repeat or if we're looking
13992s	at a three-peat of possibly this team
13996s	coming back and resetting the bracket
13998s	and then winning with another 3-0 which
14001s	is just a statistic that other
14003s	commentators would bring up not
14004s	necessarily myself but occurs very
14006s	frequently inside of this game what are
14008s	you trying to say what are you trying to
14010s	say I don't know I'm not I'm just trying
14012s	to I'm just trying I just talk in
14013s	numbers right now my friend you know it
14015s	happens a lot it happens it happens a
14018s	lot inside of this game but I do believe
14020s	that what we're looking at here is a
14022s	more intense game than probably we've
14024s	seen anywhere else inside of the bracket
14026s	because while all of the teams currently
14028s	inside of the bracket right now that is
14030s	both two Senpai MJ as well as Rip in
14032s	Brent uh virion have basically secured
14035s	themselves inside of a place at the
14037s	finals this does affect their seating
14038s	and the opportunity at that sixty
14041s	thousand dollar pot bonus for that
14044s	finale so it's really up in inside of
14047s	their favor to make sure that both or
14050s	either one of the teams fights as hard
14052s	as they can right now to secure a better
14055s	spot there so hopefully their path and
14058s	their Trek inside of that final uh
14061s	circuit match uh isn't as difficult as
14063s	it may be
14064s	yeah 100 just having the easier seed is
14069s	going to help you out tremendously not
14072s	only that but you're also going to get a
14074s	big prize pool from this tournament too
14076s	if you manage to get that first place so
14077s	not only getting a seating for the
14078s	future you're securing some money in the
14080s	short term too you know what I'm saying
14081s	so we're gonna be jumping here into
14083s	Grand finals again two cent pie and MJ
14085s	facing off against viren and rip uh
14088s	three two we've saw two three twos this
14091s	entire day so not a very rare occurrence
14093s	so I this is a complete toss-up I
14095s	actually don't know who's gonna win this
14096s	first set but what I will bet if you if
14098s	you wanna if you want to put some uh
14100s	some some guessing games on the table
14102s	here Sharpie I wanna a word you're okay
14106s	I'm ready I'm ready friend I'm fgc you
14110s	can't say that word bet I I have nothing
14114s	I I have uh IOU like I can give you a
14117s	piece of paper I got I got my PayPal
14120s	Unlimited
14123s	personally willing to put up money not
14126s	necessarily on the tournament whoa
14128s	because I don't wanna I don't wanna I
14130s	don't wanna I don't want to stress
14131s	either one of these players but what I
14132s	would like to do with you my friend is I
14134s	would like to put down a fat five United
14137s	States dollars right now on what we
14140s	think the very stage that we're going to
14142s	see right here I'm not gambling either
14143s	that's why I'm saying I know for a fact
14145s	it's going to be sky Arena platforms you
14148s	feel me word yeah
14152s	we've seen so much guy reading today and
14154s	again just like EU open number one it
14157s	was a very common pick for people people
14159s	just feel comfortable on these stages
14161s	right like it's like it's I I think it's
14163s	it's uh something to say about that
14165s	stage in general that people just like
14167s	it a lot and they want to see more
14168s	stages like that I think we're starting
14170s	to see a little bit of a shift there
14171s	especially with like the ruthless
14172s	version of Scooby's Mansion can't wait
14174s	till we see that in tournament in the
14175s	future I think that's gonna be a treat
14177s	to behold later on but for Grand finals
14180s	I don't know who's gonna win this like
14181s	two sent by maju did get that first win
14185s	they did get that first set but viren
14187s	and verip have played pretty strongly
14189s	that last game and they did catch them
14191s	off guard with that game number one
14192s	right remember that recall winners
14194s	Finals game number one it was a four
14196s	stock and it was like 30 seconds long
14198s	because it got caught off guard then
14200s	they adapted then they won if they can
14202s	keep that adaptation and try to continue
14205s	to learn as we see some changes in play
14208s	Styles they could try to secure this
14210s	Grand finals without a reset however if
14212s	the bracket resets I think of Aaron and
14214s	rip are gonna win I it's very rare to
14216s	see a Multiverse tournament or the
14217s	person who resets the bracket doesn't
14219s	win the tournament in fact
14221s	we've seen 60 curses a lot
14223s	wait is this did I just will this be a
14226s	6-0
14227s	no
14228s	I mean respected you know uh it's just
14231s	something that sometimes you know people
14234s	people people sometimes expect to see
14237s	you know inside of a Multiverse bracket
14239s	but uh who's who's to say what will
14241s	truthfully happen neither of us are
14242s	fortune tellers here and I want to kind
14244s	of bring it back to what we saw earlier
14246s	inside of this bracket uh with MJ and to
14250s	to uh to Senpai playing against viren
14253s	and Frip uh we did see that three two
14255s	you know and and like you mentioned it's
14257s	either the previous match that we just
14258s	saw it did ultimately come down to the
14260s	stage select since I have that very
14261s	first match to clench them that early
14264s	win where the ultimately it forced trap
14268s	and pawnak to actually change their
14270s	characters it like they had to sit back
14272s	and adapt and be like actually maybe
14274s	rain dog isn't the match up here and
14275s	that was a crucial decision because it
14277s	also ultimately meant that in that final
14280s	game where they had an opportunity to
14281s	adapt and where we saw uh Trad probably
14284s	play one of the best rain dog sets that
14285s	they've played inside this bracket to be
14287s	honest with you it it just wasn't enough
14289s	and we don't know if if just because of
14292s	the early round one stage selection it
14295s	could have been different you know so
14297s	that's why I put so much onus on stage
14299s	selection and the round start here
14301s	because depending on the stage that you
14303s	are depending on literally the very
14304s	first inputs that you put into the game
14306s	your path could be sealed But ultimately
14309s	inside the game like multiverses as
14311s	we've both said so much it's never over
14313s	until it's over I'm really excited to
14315s	see this and as we go into the start of
14318s	this Grand finals with two Senpai and MJ
14321s	on the winner side viren and rip on the
14323s	loser side let's get hyped for the very
14325s	first of five matches
14328s	yeah hype indeed man let's jump into it
14331s	Grand finals try platforms here gonna be
14335s	able to see a lot of this later on here
14337s	on sky Arena Batman making their
14338s	appearance yet again getting these
14339s	uppercuts hold on a second MJ and two
14342s	Senpai already off to a demanding start
14344s	opposed to play the game but hold on a
14346s	second Bureau wow being able to just
14348s	like turn the tables on him get that
14351s	side air get a 20 damage KO strong sub
14355s	red team unfortunately trip went off too
14357s	hard went a little bit too okay I'm
14359s	gonna pay the ultimate price for that
14360s	what is going on and right there we did
14363s	see the beer and go ahead and beat Aria
14364s	pie which is not only disgusting but
14366s	also slows them down immensely we did
14368s	see Batman go ahead and take that
14369s	opportunity to get quite a bit of damage
14370s	who's now sitting at 69 very nice
14372s	percent right there
14374s	looking extremely nice as we're gonna
14376s	try to survive with that down special
14378s	again look out for that bat bomb it's
14381s	still activating a combat I love the
14382s	follow-up from MJ just knowing the exact
14384s	time on those grenades not only the only
14386s	time on your your moves involves in your
14387s	opponents because there are very strong
14389s	tools to add to your asset here we go
14391s	102 Not Gonna Die to that one up special
14393s	just yet meanwhile you're gonna see two
14395s	Senpai trying to get some up special and
14397s	up air actions against the opponent
14398s	themselves rip not
14401s	quite trying to
14405s	do something right here oh my goodness
14410s	knock out there and we're looking at Red
14412s	Team trying to recover Arya at 111 right
14415s	now Batman going flying from that Jake
14418s	down air and that does rack up two
14422s	stalks a piece for each team right now
14424s	five minutes on the Block three evenly
14426s	paced match just like we saw inside of
14428s	winners Match Point yeah it's looking
14431s	extremely even but hold on a second that
14433s	was almost a spell for disaster he saw
14435s	for it had a potential up special string
14437s	going against MJ gets the uppercut and
14440s	now all of a sudden the Atari prime
14441s	target becomes virus they're off safe
14443s	600 a lot of the resources were gone
14445s	they managed to reclaim them we're
14446s	coming back down on the stage and now
14447s	puts him in the blender with the
14449s	skateboard pulling off a 360 no scope
14451s	down air special putting the burn deep
14454s	up on them looking pretty strong here
14456s	does it again it's such a good combo
14457s	starter look at them 81 damage gets
14459s	caught by the Upstream hold on a second
14461s	gonna be able to survive a little bit
14462s	longer two stepwise still in there
14463s	anything damage can they be able to pull
14465s	off a little bit longer Batman in
14467s	trouble MJ off stage can he get back on
14469s	sign here coming now recovery
14474s	you're in a bad position that was
14476s	terrifying that was terrifying Batman
14477s	has literally no recovery he was not
14478s	able to escape at all the Oreo did not
14480s	confirm that final knockout on two blue
14484s	teams Arya specifically on two Senpai
14486s	clenched that win for grip and Veer in
14489s	there who go up one oh inside of this
14492s	Grand finals two more wins
14495s	but look at all these knockout
14497s	opportunities that red team was able to
14499s	cure so early inside of the match blue
14502s	team getting quite a few Knockouts of
14505s	their own very even trades in all of
14507s	these matches you can see just how much
14510s	each one of these teams wanted they're
14512s	making very very crucial decisions
14514s	they're going in they're scrapping and
14516s	they're trading very evenly almost every
14518s	single stock is immediately passed up
14520s	with another stock of their own until
14522s	ultimately one of these final stocks
14524s	happened very good follow-up here by the
14526s	way on that upper cup for Batman right
14528s	now but this final stock right here is
14530s	what I really want to talk about and I
14532s	think it's something that you've
14533s	discussed several times over Jake's up
14536s	up up up up up up up up up
14538s	charge on the ground right now is just
14542s	beautiful it knocks it out it confirms
14545s	and it is an easy way to get one of
14547s	those final Knockouts and a point in
14549s	time when you need it because it's just
14550s	so incredibly active Aussie
14553s	Jake has a lot of ko Tools in their
14555s	Arsenal right going for the up attack
14557s	like you said with the ax swing is such
14559s	a strong KO potential move being able to
14562s	chill to the top of the screen which we
14563s	saw a lot a lot of coming out from Buren
14567s	going to the top using his up special
14569s	trying to catch someone flinging over
14571s	towards them and stick them up to the
14573s	top and combo it into an up bear like
14575s	vertical is the name of the game you're
14577s	either going off the top from one of
14578s	those moves or going down from a
14580s	skateboard just because it's so active
14582s	and long lasting so we're gonna see how
14584s	they're gonna be able to adapt here for
14585s	the game number two to Senpai and MJ
14587s	very close game one could easily bring
14590s	this back not much adaptation to bring
14591s	to the table just has to you know fine
14593s	tune their technicalities here again
14595s	everyone running triple jump not a shock
14597s	to see very good tool be able especially
14599s	in a matchup as volatile as this where
14600s	people are flying off stage like crazy
14602s	you want that extra jump to try to help
14604s	you avoid certain Combos and certain
14605s	Doom for sure and it's it's really has
14608s	like to your credit it really has been a
14611s	very even match it can definitely go
14612s	either way and it's one of those things
14614s	where it's just like you almost hope
14616s	that Vera and VIP are able to keep this
14618s	momentum in order to play the reset
14621s	opportunity because it's entirely too
14622s	easy for two Senpai as well as MJ to
14625s	bring it back just like once again we
14626s	saw on winners finals it's almost an
14628s	exactly now as we go into this game too
14631s	right now I'm interested to see what the
14632s	round side is immediately we get the end
14634s	rage dagger does go out from Red team's
14636s	Arya and now it's kind of just a game of
14638s	matching up all these weekend stacks on
14641s	both members oh my goodness
14648s	incredible follow-up from Batman you saw
14651s	Susan by hit hit Byron and Matthew had a
14655s	star ready to go and he got another
14656s	point on the board good follow from
14657s	Burien it's a two point to one point
14659s	lead now it's like nothing really even
14660s	happened now Tuesday if I have 52 damage
14662s	is like the one you have to have the
14663s	lookout for but gets another KO on MJ
14666s	yet again two points a piece they're not
14668s	even phased by that early stock
14671s	absolutely no it's absolutely impressive
14674s	to me the way that yeah look at the way
14675s	look at the way they let that Arya
14677s	recover look at how that audio
14680s	that should have ultimately I'm not
14682s	going to sit here and and chastise beer
14685s	in and there but I'm surprised that two
14687s	Senpai was able to recover the way that
14689s	they were there
14690s	um that may actually have cost red red
14693s	team a very large food that they did not
14695s	want to drop there and looking at blue
14697s	team right now being in knockout rain
14699s	wow make me eat my words friend that
14703s	make me eat my words great great
14707s	um this isn't the end I'm just going for
14709s	the ax swing on top of them gets another
14711s	up there and two sempo Ninjas showing
14714s	that they're not out of the woods just
14715s	yet you may have taken game number one
14716s	but we're here again I have no idea
14719s	who's gonna be winning these games
14720s	because they're trading back and forth
14722s	both teams have such great verticality
14725s	capabilities right MJ could go in there
14728s	get it up a special against someone off
14731s	the top of the blast zone to get a spike
14733s	off the side get a side attack on top of
14734s	that just so many different Tools in
14737s	Batman's kit that can help him solidify
14739s	these chaos especially having a strong
14740s	uppercut having batarang to be able to
14742s	combo into stuff as well especially if
14744s	you put the the bat bomb on them on top
14746s	of it so just really strong tools I love
14748s	that escape by the way right there for
14749s	two Senpai that was looking like it was
14751s	going to be red team's game to win but
14753s	two Senpai jumped out of it last second
14755s	managed the kbi correctly and get away
14758s	from Arya sauce special because what
14760s	that is that's a 50 50 mix-up when you
14762s	get hit by arya's up special and there's
14765s	a follow-up afterwards there's a side
14766s	air an upbear what have you that mix up
14769s	is all about which way do you di do you
14772s	go left or do you go right and the Aria
14774s	has to guess which direction you go in
14776s	order to get the follow-up they guess
14777s	correctly they will survive and honestly
14779s	because they caught both of them in the
14780s	in the same process there could have
14782s	been a thing like okay you go right I go
14783s	left and that could have been like a
14785s	split second decision they made I'm not
14786s	sure it happens way too fast you
14787s	probably can't communicate it that fast
14789s	enough that is a situation where you can
14791s	do maybe it's something you can say off
14792s	the beginning was like Hey if we both
14793s	get caught by a special you go right I
14795s	go left that way we both don't die so it
14797s	could be nothing that you think about it
14799s	could be it could also be that both
14802s	teams are like ultimately you know what
14804s	I really want to do is go to Scooby's
14806s	mansion
14814s	happens
14816s	hey you know maybe they might maybe
14818s	they'll Grant your wish you know maybe
14819s	when it's like game the last game and
14822s	they're they're down and they feel like
14823s	they're not gonna win at all it's like
14824s	oh you know what let's put on a show for
14826s	Sharpie let's let's give her these
14829s	Mansion I want to hear some spooky music
14831s	it's festivities still it's still
14833s	technically the Halloween season for a
14835s	battle pass one man it's still good a
14838s	lot for Christmas
14839s	okay you just want a lot for Halloween
14851s	we are going to be seeing no changes
14853s	inside of either team in terms of
14855s	characters I wasn't fast enough to
14856s	necessarily see them and it looks like
14858s	we're actually going to go to Chrome
14859s	here I don't disapprove because mostly
14862s	because several times that the teams
14864s	were messing around inside the blast
14865s	zone uh specifically on red team's favor
14868s	they were actually able to recover
14870s	really low as a reminder the floors on
14872s	promulon are very very low so it's much
14874s	easier to secure a knockout with a down
14877s	or a down Brown move that both Ariel uh
14881s	that both Arya and Jake kind of excel at
14883s	here
14884s	dude speaking of excel they're both
14886s	teams are excelling so well at the
14888s	punish game right now they're punishing
14890s	the punishing the punish it you know
14891s	what I'm saying like if red team hits a
14893s	blue team the blue team has red team the
14894s	red team hits blue team like it's always
14895s	like oh you're punishing my friend I'm
14897s	punishing you and you're like oh you're
14898s	punishing my friend I'm hitting you I'm
14900s	smacking you up we're seeing that a lot
14901s	in the beginning of this game you're
14902s	also not going to see as many early Ko's
14904s	this stage around because it is
14906s	crimeulons like look at that the fact
14908s	that two Senpai is alive after that is
14910s	purely because this has caught me on
14912s	stage 152 damage on Arya is literally
14915s	unheard of for sure uh just trading in
14919s	those knockout situations look at that
14921s	ultimately red team coming out on top
14922s	Arias is Arya is at 80 right now but
14926s	it's not necessarily something she has
14927s	to worry about just because of the
14928s	nature of crimeon and because of the way
14930s	that Jake is making sure that she's
14932s	staying in Opportunities where she can
14934s	recover pretty safely even at 92 look at
14936s	the way that arya's traversing she is
14938s	not terrified of anything she's not
14940s	scared of white walkers she's not scared
14941s	of you here it comes
14943s	she's definitely not scared of any of
14945s	those things coming over with the upper
14948s	look out MJ just trying to laying back
14950s	down on the ground letting these up
14951s	specials after up specials we'll see how
14953s	he's gonna be able to work out oh gets
14955s	the downer gets a combo off the
14956s	battering on top of that look at this
14957s	Chase bat Batman has such incredible
14960s	speeds Sheila chase after their
14962s	opponents and just try to like keep the
14963s	combo game on as we're gonna come back
14965s	into this has the bath bomb hold on a
14967s	second he doesn't even need it one point
14968s	away from two Senpai ninja to be able to
14970s	bring this to a potential tournament
14971s	Point Let's see if they can pull it off
14973s	now this is in this is instrumental for
14976s	Two Step by and MJ did not have to look
14978s	at that right there look at that
14979s	coordination with that Arya beautiful
14981s	follow-up there and look at that nasty
14984s	that nasty double taunt look if you win
14986s	if you win baby you better flaunt it
14988s	also you feel me we won't stop until I'm
14991s	planting let me tell you what man I
14994s	I kind of want to pick up Batman now I'm
14995s	not gonna lie this character looks
14997s	amazing
14998s	I can't lose you to the Batman bro what
15001s	do you mean I've always loved Batman
15003s	yeah I've always been meaning I've been
15004s	meaning him since SEC test one you know
15006s	what I'm saying like he's always been in
15007s	my pocket don't mind that he's level one
15008s	don't worry about that he's always been
15010s	there I've always been a Batman fan
15013s	um it's really nice to see two Senpai
15015s	and MJ come out on top here mostly
15019s	because that uh 2-1 lead right now means
15022s	that they're only one game away from
15024s	possibly taking this entire Grand finals
15027s	and not having to worry about a reset it
15029s	really does look like that crimeulon's
15031s	pick was smart for them to go through
15034s	especially on the rebounds of it but
15035s	like one of the things that we've talked
15037s	about multiple times inside this
15038s	tournament counter pick Advantage when
15040s	you win that very first match you win
15043s	counter pick Advantage meaning that you
15044s	ultimately have control of the stages
15046s	for the remainder of the time and are
15048s	you kind of seeing MJ as well as soon if
15050s	I take advantage of that fact
15052s	I mean it's gonna just naturally happen
15055s	right like he said having that Advantage
15057s	right now now that you're up to one no
15059s	matter what you're gonna be guaranteed
15061s	at least one more counter pick so right
15063s	now it's veered in Rip's counter pick
15064s	they're gonna be able to take them to
15065s	game four but if they win this then
15067s	automatically the last game of the set
15069s	is going to be in two cent by nmj's
15071s	favor just no matter what because
15073s	they're up to one so that's what that's
15075s	where they're gonna have that counter
15076s	pick Advantage come into play it might
15078s	not even come in you know if they win
15079s	game number four and win the tournament
15080s	then it's done it's over they don't even
15082s	get it you utilize it but no matter what
15084s	they still have at least one more
15085s	counter pick and so far I feel like
15087s	counter picks haven't been too drastic
15089s	in this set at all because both teams
15092s	kind of rely off the same stuff both
15093s	teams want verticality both teams want
15096s	those low those low ground blast zones
15098s	for the easy spikes like it's I was kind
15101s	of shocked to see crimeulons I looked
15102s	like they were just picking that stage
15103s	as it's just a change of pace in all
15105s	honesty they just want to try to mix it
15106s	up they didn't feel like there was any
15107s	sort of like character advantage or
15109s	anything I disagree with that I disagree
15112s	with that actually and I'll tell you why
15113s	it's because I actually saw several
15115s	times where viren actually utilized a
15119s	plethora of down air spikes and one of
15122s	the things I actually saw as well from
15123s	Arya was I also saw a multitude of
15125s	different down air conversions and kind
15127s	of forcing them into dagger situations
15129s	because of the way that both viren and
15131s	rip needed to recover back onto the
15132s	stage so I actually think that was a
15134s	very smart counterpick in terms of two
15136s	Senpai and MJ's site I don't usually
15138s	disagree with you also I think
15140s	analysis but I I do believe that that
15143s	counterpick actually ultimate helped
15145s	actually ended up helping out two Senpai
15147s	and MJ more than it ended up helping
15148s	veran and rip several times inside of
15150s	that previous matchup yeah it was it was
15152s	like it matches their playstyle right
15153s	because it has literally Batman also
15156s	benefits from spikes look at that
15157s	they're going straight back here
15158s	carmelons and definitely the stage like
15160s	you said that you want to go back here
15161s	because of their playstyles opting to
15163s	help them out a lot with those downers I
15165s	haven't seen too many spikes coming up
15166s	from MJ even though Batman has
15168s	incredible spikes himself he's got the
15169s	down special he's got the down air he
15171s	has batter rain combos that go into it
15173s	as well but we're not really seeing that
15174s	come out from MJ too often very true
15176s	we're seeing a lot of weekend Stacks
15178s	coming from MJ's passive on Batman there
15180s	but you're correct I'm not necessarily
15182s	seeing as many down airs that I would
15184s	usually expect to confirm I'm seeing
15185s	most of those come out from two Senpai
15187s	the Arya player here uh and inside
15190s	wow that's the double uppercuts
15196s	gigantic yeah yeah just to be able to
15198s	get that lead that early on some
15200s	fantastic stuff coming up from NJ let's
15202s	try to finish this off again on top of
15204s	uh viren but again you're gonna see rip
15207s	out here trying to get some early Chaos
15209s	on top that has a strong fully charged
15211s	cider gonna be able to try to stuff it
15212s	out there speaking of down air from
15214s	Batman gonna be able to get that might
15215s	not be a spike but you're going towards
15216s	the top of the glasses literally if it
15218s	was at 160. anyone's down or where to
15221s	send them flying that high for sure and
15223s	uh previously oh my goodness look at
15225s	these down ears look at these Arya
15226s	downers this is why I understand why
15228s	Tommy lens is a pig that uh oh
15231s	Arya excels at a team like this she
15234s	doesn't have to worry about platforms
15235s	because her dagger gives her an
15237s	automatic recovery
15240s	fantastic stare there by that James
15244s	fantastic and look at the same situation
15246s	this is exactly where Jake does not want
15247s	to be inside this matchup in a 2V1
15249s	situation of Batman on Final stop
15252s	you're gonna notice that rip actually
15253s	fell out of resources now we're coming
15255s	down to the tournament wire this could
15256s	potentially be the end of the European
15258s	open number two if Matt MJ can just get
15261s	one more uppercut on their opponents and
15263s	just end this before we get any sort of
15265s	moments of red team it can all be done
15266s	if you're in right now I'm sitting at
15268s	111 damage I'm gonna stay alive for as
15270s	long as possible keeps getting caught in
15271s	the crossfire every time you see him
15273s	running away from right side to left
15274s	side you can notice that hitbox finding
15276s	their way towards their Mark there it is
15277s	battering gonna be able to start off
15278s	with the weekend debuff on top of them
15280s	you see rip trying to counteract on top
15282s	of that throwing up the dagger there's
15283s	the upstairs
15287s	taking home the tournament three to one
15290s	grand finals your European open number
15292s	two Champions guaranteeing themselves a
15295s	fantastic seat for the finals two weeks
15297s	from now congratulations to two Senpai
15299s	and MJ and let's get back to the moments
15302s	that secured them that round look at all
15304s	of these down airs that you're getting
15306s	not only from two Senpai but also from
15309s	NJ which is a complete change of pace
15311s	from the previous ones we got another
15312s	down out there by brip but it did not
15315s	put the blue team at any state of
15318s	disadvantage even with that crazy Sarah
15321s	right there from Jake they kept their
15322s	composure they went ahead and punished
15324s	the Arya taking away all her recovery
15326s	and then immediately put their eyes on
15328s	Jake in order to secure this final
15330s	knockout right here Arya following up
15332s	and securing that grand finals victory
15335s	for two Senpai and MJ as you stated our
15338s	EU West 0-2 champions securing that
15342s	final fantastic seed for the fall
15344s	showcase finals Aussie what a fantastic
15347s	tournament we saw today
15349s	yeah honestly just I love seeing other
15353s	countries and other continents like put
15355s	in some great gameplay outside of
15357s	because you know we're both from n a so
15359s	we don't get to see these players as
15360s	much so we're actually being able to
15362s	witness them and commentate over them
15363s	it's really cool to see like the
15365s	differences between character selection
15367s	between play Styles between stage
15369s	selections like they're all vastly
15371s	different compared to like what we're
15372s	doing over here in North America so
15374s	cannot wait to see what they're going to
15375s	be cooking here for finals number two on
15378s	top of that but yeah at the end of the
15379s	day I just want to take one little last
15381s	look at the bracket here just to show
15383s	off all the results that we've had
15384s	throughout the entirety of the EU open
15386s	number two off the start obviously you
15388s	got two cent by an MJ taking home the
15390s	entire tournament right veren and drip
15393s	coming in the second place very
15394s	commendable placement by them by the way
15395s	they put in a lot of work to come out
15397s	from that's ponics and Travis sitting
15399s	down at third place down in losers
15401s	finals pleb tank and Timmy going with a
15403s	fourth place finish tied for fifth we
15405s	got Babar Elroy as well as Phantom and
15407s	mitsuki then last but not least we got
15409s	seventh place with Elric and Joe suit as
15412s	well as bodzia and minutes at Mid
15414s	Michael so congratulations to all those
15416s	players Sharpie you know it's only a
15419s	side of a game like this multiverses
15421s	which I want to remind all of our
15422s	viewers and listeners is currently free
15424s	to play on several different platforms
15425s	that's PC Xbox series s and X as well as
15429s	PlayStation so you can currently
15431s	actively play it right now in addition
15432s	to having cross play makes it a
15434s	fantastic addition to anybody who's
15436s	interested in getting inside the
15437s	competitive game themselves now if they
15439s	may already be playing multiverses but
15441s	don't necessarily know where to go in
15442s	where to follow the competitive scene I
15444s	want to remind everyone you can also go
15445s	to twitter.com
15446s	nvsgaming to keep up on not only the
15449s	fall showcase but all Competitive
15451s	multiverses Gaming moving forward as you
15453s	mentioned earlier inside this broadcast
15455s	on Thursday we do have Make It Rain dog
15456s	number four over on twitch.tv player
15458s	first games where you can check in to
15461s	see some of the amazing locals coming
15462s	from the developers of the game player
15464s	first games on that side too now Aussie
15466s	I'm not going to keep you here any
15468s	longer because I know especially after I
15469s	at Grand finals our heart can't take
15471s	very much more so I just want to say
15474s	thank you so much for commentating with
15476s	me and do you have any final thoughts on
15479s	on this tournament and the Showcase in
15481s	general
15482s	cannot wait for finals that's all I'm
15484s	gonna say like it's because we saw EU
15486s	open one EU open two both these topic
15488s	players we now have our final 16 teams
15491s	coming in and I absolutely cannot wait
15493s	for them to go and also you know we've
15495s	had a little bit of a break from the n a
15497s	uh breath side of things right last time
15499s	we had n a West and East it was like
15500s	almost three weeks ago so we're finally
15502s	gonna have n a East and West coming up
15504s	next week on top of that next Sunday if
15506s	you guys want to tune into that you're
15507s	gonna see the second best of the best
15509s	coming in from nas he was going to
15510s	qualify for those finals later on so
15512s	excited to just keep seeing great
15515s	fun multiverses action
15518s	I am right there with you brother and
15520s	from all of us here on the multi multi
15523s	versus fall showcase production site
15525s	thank you so much for watching and we'll
15526s	see you again in but a little while in a
15530s	couple of days for the final showcase
15532s	stay tuned and thanks for watching and
15534s	playing multiverses
15543s	[Music]
15547s	[Applause]
15550s	[Music]
15572s	thank you
15579s	[Music]

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